COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND ASSOCIATED WINDOW RESIZING METHOD

• US 20120297336A1
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Hung-Yi, Lu, Meng-Ju
• Application Number:
  US13/462,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/800
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A computer system with a touch screen is provided. The computer system includes a touch unit, a hook unit, and a controlling application program. The touch unit generates a position signal according to the touch point. The hook unit is used for judging whether the first position is near a border of a to-be-resized window according to the position signal. If the first position is not near the border, a left button pressing event at the first position and a left button releasing event at the first position are generated. If the first position is near the border, the left button pressing event at the second position, a continuous motion event corresponding to the movement from the second position to a third position and the left button releasing event at the third position are sequentially generated.

Claims

1. A window resizing method for a touch screen of a computer system, the window resizing method comprising steps of:

generating a left button pressing event according to a touch point at a first position of the touch screen;

judging whether the first position is near a border of a to-be-resized window or not, wherein if the first position is near the border of the to-be-resized window, the first position is changed into a second position, which is located at the border of the to-be-resized window; and

judging whether a left button releasing event at the first position is generated or not, wherein if the left button releasing event at the first position is generated, the left button pressing event at the first position and the left button releasing event at the first position are sequentially outputted, wherein if the left button releasing event at the first position is not generated, the left button pressing event at the second position, a continuous motion event corresponding to a movement from the second position to a third position and the left button releasing event at the third position are sequentially outputted.

2. The window resizing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer system comprises:

a touch unit for generating a position signal according to the touch point;

a hook unit for generating the left button pressing event, the continuous motion event or the left button releasing event according to the position signal, wherein the first position is changed into the second position by the hook unit; and

a controlling application program for receiving and executing the left button pressing event, the continuous motion event or the left button releasing event that is outputted from the hook unit.

3. The window resizing method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the touch unit comprises the touch screen and a driver, wherein the driver generates the position signal according to the touch point.

4. The window resizing method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the hook unit comprises a window resizing recognition unit and an input device, wherein the first position is changed into the second position by the window resizing recognition unit, wherein the left button pressing event, the continuous motion event or the left button releasing event are generated by the input unit.

5. The window resizing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the first position is not near the border of the to-be-resized window, the window resizing method further comprises a step of outputting the left button pressing event at the first position.

6. The window resizing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the left button releasing event at the first position is not generated, the window resizing method further comprises a step of outputting the continuous motion event corresponding to a movement from the first position to the third position.

7. The window resizing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of judging whether the first position is near the border of the to-be-resized window comprises sub-steps of:

generating a predetermined range relative to the first position according to the touch point at the first position;

judging whether the predetermined range is completely within the window or outside the border of the window or not, wherein if the predetermined range is completely within the window or outside the border of the window, the first position is confirmed not to be near the border of the to-be-resized window, wherein if the predetermined range is not completely within the window or outside the border of the window, the predetermined range is confirmed to be in contact with n windows, where n is a positive integer;

judging whether one of the n windows is an active window after the predetermined range is confirmed to be in contact with the n windows, wherein if one of the n windows is the active window, the active window is set as the to-be-resized window and the first position is confirmed to be near the to-be-resized window; and

judging whether only one of the n windows is the topmost window after none of the n windows is confirmed to be the active window, wherein if only one of the n windows is the topmost window, the topmost window is set as the to-be-resized window and the first position is confirmed to be near the to-be-resized window, wherein if two or more topmost windows of the n windows are topmost windows, the topmost window closest to the touch point at the first position is set as the to-be-resized window and the first position is confirmed to be near the to-be-resized window.

8. A computer system with a touch screen, the computer system comprising:

a touch unit for generating a position signal according to the touch point;

a hook unit for judging whether the first position is near a border of a to-be-resized window according to the position signal, thereby determining whether a left button pressing event at the first position and a left button releasing event at the first position are generated or determining whether the left button pressing event at a second position, a continuous motion event corresponding to the movement from the second position to a third position and the left button releasing event at the third position are sequentially generated, wherein the first position is changed into the second position by the hook unit, and the second position is located at the border of the to-be-resized window; and

a controlling application program for receiving and executing the left button pressing event, the continuous motion event or the left button releasing event that is outputted from the hook unit.

9. The computer system as claimed in claim 8, wherein if the first position is not near the border of the to-be-resized window, the left button pressing event at the first position and the left button releasing event at the first position are generated, wherein if the first position is near the border of the to-be-resized window, the left button pressing event at the second position, the continuous motion event corresponding to the movement from the second position to a third position and the left button releasing event at the third position are sequentially generated.

10. The computer system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the hook judges whether the first position is near the border of the to-be-resized window by steps of:

generating a predetermined range relative to the first position according to the touch point at the first position;

judging whether the predetermined range is completely within the window or outside the border of the window or not, wherein if the predetermined range is completely within the window or outside the border of the window, the first position is confirmed not to be near the border of the to-be-resized window, wherein if the predetermined range is not completely within the window or outside the border of the window, the predetermined range is confirmed to be in contact with n windows, where n is a positive integer;

judging whether one of the n windows is an active window after the predetermined range is confirmed to be in contact with the n windows, wherein if one of the n windows is the active window, the active window is set as the to-be-resized window and the first position is confirmed to be near the to-be-resized window; and

judging whether only one of the n windows is the topmost window after none of the n windows is confirmed to be the active window, wherein if only one of the n windows is the topmost window, the topmost window is set as the to-be-resized window and the first position is confirmed to be near the to-be-resized window, wherein if two or more topmost windows of the n windows are topmost windows, the topmost window closest to the touch point at the first position is set as the to-be-resized window and the first position is confirmed to be near the to-be-resized window.