Describing and operating hot key method for corresponded direction

Abstract

A method to describe and operate shortcut key by relevant direction includes dividing each key on the keyboard to be four direction of right, left, up and down; then dividing each direction to be two positions; utilizing the eight divided positions to correspond to eight shortcut key combination modes and its figure code for being applied to describe and operate the shortcut key.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of computers, in particular to keyboard shortcut key technology, and is a method for describing and manipulating shortcut keys. Background technique [0002] "Shortcut key" is a combination of keys that realize various manipulation commands through the keyboard, and is a computer operation method. "Shortcut key" is also called "quick key", "accelerator key", "access key" and "hot key" in PC personal computer, and it is called "shortcut key" in MAC Macintosh. ". As the name suggests, this is a fast and convenient operation. Usually, the software will preset shortcut keys for some commonly used commands. These preset shortcut keys are called "default shortcut keys". At present, professional software also provides the function of custom shortcut keys. We refer to custom shortcut keys as "default shortcut keys" for short. Quick setting", quick setting is generally set on the principle of not changing the "default short...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] The first point: the source of knowledge of shortcut keys is "unclear"

General software will have shortcut key descriptions in the help file, which are currently described in "article style" or "list style", and sometimes in detailed command descriptions or English descriptions (such as the attached figure 1 and figure 2 ), which are not completely consistent with the command name, and some software can only know the shortcut key through the shortcut key prompt located on the right side of the "drop-down menu" or when the mouse stays on the command (button), because the knowledge sources of the shortcut keys are different The same is not clear, resulting in many default shortcut keys not being well used by users, and "quick setting" is even less used

[0004] The second point: the description of the shortcut key is "not intuitive"

The help files of the software and some software-related teaching materials all describe shortcut keys in "article style" or "list style". description, and has nothing to do with the keyboard layout used in our actual operation, so it is not convenient for us to browse and use shortcut keys and quick settings

[0005] The third point: the customization of shortcut keys is "inconvenient"

If the user needs to switch between the PC and the MAC frequently, the combination key names, key combinations, and key combinations of the PC and the MAC are not the same, resulting in confusion in the use of shortcut keys

For the above reasons, many users prefer to use the "multi-level" and less efficient operation mode of "menu".

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