System and method for corresponding tabs to content information

A computer for executing a screen display program recorded on an included non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, said screen display program comprising:

• a reception instructing step to instruct reception of content information;
• a receiving step to receive the content information in conformity with the instruction of the reception instructing step;
• a tab display control step to display a plurality of tabs in a display screen;
• a correspondence setting step to correspond the content information received to one of the plurality of tabs;
• a drawing step to generate a content image by drawing the content information received and to store the content image;
• a content image display control step to display a content image of content information corresponding to an active tab selected from the plurality of tabs, in an area of the display screen other than display areas for the plurality of tabs;
• a progress information acquiring step to acquire a progress information for processing of at least one or more of receiving, drawing, and storing of predetermined content information for which reception is instructed;
• and
• a progress status outputting step to display an image corresponding to the progress information acquired in the progress information acquiring step, the displayed image associated to a tab corresponded to the predetermined content information on the display screen, wherein
• in the tab display control step, a plurality of tab bars respectively corresponding to the tabs are displayed;
• in the progress status outputting step, the image corresponding to the progress information is displayed on the tab bar to which the predetermined content information is corresponded,
• the image corresponding to the progress information includes a read-in display bar which displays a degree of the progress of the processing recognizably,
• the progress information acquiring step includes a progress status calculating step to calculate a progress status for the processing,
• a length of the tab bar corresponding to the active tab is longer than a length of the other tab bar,
• a length of the read-in display bar is changed in accordance with the calculated progress status,
• the length of the read-in display bar is changed in accordance with whether the tab is active or not, and wherein
• the length of the read-in display bar is ‘0’ when the degree of the progress of the processing corresponds to 0% and the length is almost equal to a longitudinal length of the tab bar with the read-in display bar when the degree of the progress of the processing corresponds to 100%, regardless of whether the tab corresponding to the tab bar with the read-in display bar is active or not.

A screen display apparatus comprising:

• a screen display program recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• reception instructing means for instructing reception of content information;
• receiving means for receiving content information in response to the instruction from the reception instructing means;
• tab display control means for displaying a plurality of tabs in a display screen;
• correspondence setting means for corresponding the content information received to any one of the plurality of tabs;
• image storage means;
• drawing means for generating a content image by drawing the content information received and for storing the content image in the image storage means;
• content image display control means for displaying a content image of content information corresponding to an active tab selected from the plurality of tabs, in an area of the display screen other than display areas for the plurality of tabs;
• progress information acquiring means for acquiring a progress information for processing of at least one or more of receiving, drawing, and storing of predetermined content information for which reception is instructed;
• and
• progress status outputting means for displaying an image corresponding to the progress information acquired by the progress information acquiring means, the displayed image associated to a tab corresponded to the predetermined content information on the display screen, wherein
• the tab display control means displays a plurality of tab bars respectively corresponding to the tabs;
• the progress status outputting means displays the image corresponding to the progress information on the tab bar to which the predetermined content information is corresponded,
• the image corresponding to the progress information includes a read-in display bar which displays a degree of the progress of the processing recognizably,
• the progress information acquiring step includes a progress status calculating step to calculate a progress status for the processing,
• a length of the tab bar corresponding to the active tab is longer than a length of the other tab bar,
• a length of the read-in display bar is changed in accordance with the calculated progress status,
• the length of the read-in display bar is changed in accordance with whether the tab is active or not, and wherein
• the length of the read-in display bar is ‘0’ when the degree of the progress of the processing corresponds to 0% and the length is almost equal to a longitudinal length of the tab bar with the read-in display bar when the degree of the progress of the processing corresponds to 100%, regardless of whether the tab corresponding to the tab bar with the read-in display bar is active or not.

A screen display method comprising:

• reading a screen display program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium;
• instructing reception of content information;
• receiving content information in conformity with the instruction;
• displaying a plurality of tabs in a display screen;
• corresponding the received content information to any one of the plurality of tabs;
• generating a content image by drawing the received content information and storing the content image;
• displaying a content image of content information corresponding to an active tab selected from the plurality of tabs, in an area of the display screen other than display areas for the plurality of tabs;
• acquiring progress information for processing of at least one or more of receiving the predetermined content information, generating the content image, and storing the content image;
• and
• displaying an image corresponding to the acquired progress information, the displayed image associated to a tab corresponded to the predetermined content information on the display, wherein
• a plurality of tab bars respectively corresponding to the tabs are displayed;
• the image corresponding to the progress information is displayed on the tab bar to which the predetermined content information is corresponded,
• the image corresponding to the progress information includes a read-in display bar which displays a degree of the progress of the processing recognizably,
• the progress information acquiring step includes a progress status calculating step to calculate a progress status for the processing,
• a length of the tab bar corresponding to the active tab is longer than a length of the other tab bar,
• a length of the read-in display bar is changed in accordance with the calculated progress status,
• the length of the read-in display bar is changed in accordance with whether the tab is active or not, and wherein
• the length of the read-in display bar is ‘0’ when the degree of the progress of the processing corresponds to 0% and the length is almost equal to a longitudinal length of the tab bar with the read-in display bar when the degree of the progress of the processing corresponds to 100%, regardless of whether the tab corresponding to the tab bar with the read-in display bar is active or not.