Patent ID: 7113167

Claim:
A dialog device for dialog between an operator of an aircraft and a system of said aircraft, said dialog device comprising: at least one screen that displays at least two responsive objects on one or more interactive windows, each of said responsive objects being associated with one of multiple functions, said functions for being initiated by said dialog device under action of the operator so that they are executed; at least one cursor control device arranged to be actuated by said operator and including: an actuatable displacement means that causes continuous displacement of a cursor on at least one of said interactive windows to designate one of the responsive objects, by making a main object marker appear, and an actuatable confirmation means that confirms the one of said responsive objects, which has said main object marker, to initiate execution of the function which is associated with said one of said responsive objects; and auxiliary control means, which are arranged so that they can also be actuated by said operator, that control an auxiliary object marker without affecting control of said main object marker, said auxiliary control means comprising at least: an actuatable displacement element that discretely displaces said auxiliary object marker, responsive object-by-responsive object, on the at least one of the interactive windows, and an actuatable confirmation element that confirms one of the responsive objects, which has said auxiliary object marker, to initiate execution of the function associated with said one of said responsive objects confirmed by said actuatable confirmation element, wherein: control of the main object marker by said cursor control device always has priority over control of the auxiliary object marker by said auxiliary control means when the two markers, main and auxiliary, are on the same interactive window.