Patent ID: 11934638
Assignee: CELSYS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A command display method being a method of displaying a plurality of commands in a computer including a graphical user interface for displaying the plurality of commands in a window on a display screen, the plurality of commands having a plurality of layers,
the command display method comprising:
detecting a vertical or horizontal size of the window;
determining, in response to the detected size, a form of a display of a menu from which a command in each of the plurality of layers is selected; and
controlling a display of the plurality of commands in each of the plurality of layers in response to the determined display form of the menu or an instruction from an operator such that
commands in a first layer among the plurality of layers are controlled to be displayed in a list in an area inside the window,
the first layer is a layer that is at a lower level among the plurality of layers than at least one layer whose display form of the menu changes, and
the list in the first layer is displayed before and after a change in the display form of the menu,

wherein in the determining of the form of the display of the menu, a form of the plurality of commands in the at least one layer at a higher level than the first layer is determined to be the display form of the menu in a pull-down display form and/or in a form in which a plurality of states switch from one to another in turn when the detected size is smaller than a first value, and the form of the plurality of commands in the at least one layer at the higher level is determined to be the display form of the menu in a list form when the detected size is larger than or equal to the first value, and
wherein in the controlling, when the detected size becomes smaller than the first value, the display in the list form of the plurality of commands in the at least one layer at the higher level is removed to give a space to the list in the first layer.