Menu Screen Display Method and Menu Screen Display Device

摘要

Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.

主权项

1. A menu screen display method, comprising:
acquiring a first menu display instruction from a user requesting that an operating system program generate a first operating system menu screen to be displayed on a display screen, wherein the first menu display instruction is produced by the user pressing a button of the computer processing device or a peripheral device connected thereto without interaction with any icon of the display screen; outputting the first operating system menu screen for display on the display screen in response to the first menu display instruction, where the first operating system menu screen is generated by the operating system program on the computer processing device, and where the first operating system menu screen includes a content icon that is selectable by a user to cause the computer processing device to run the application program; acquiring a second menu display instruction from the user requesting that the operating system program generate a second operating system menu screen to be displayed on the display screen while the application program is running, wherein the second menu display instruction is produced by the user pressing the button of the computer processing device or the peripheral device connected thereto without interaction with the content icon of the display screen; generating, by the operating system program, the second operating system menu screen in response to the second menu display instruction while the application program is running, wherein the second operating system menu screen includes the content icon and an instruction icon for receiving a user-selected instruction to the running application program; and outputting the second operating system menu screen for display on the display screen such that the content icon and instruction icon are spaced apart from one another on the display screen.