METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING OPERATION STATE OF PROGRAM IN PERSONAL COMPUTER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide low-cost operation state display method and operation state display device capable of confirming the operation state of an automatically operated task and a program for a job. SOLUTION: The operation state display device is provided with a keyboard 2 having a display device 2b for an indicator, a key input control means 3 detecting key switch input and controlling the display of the display device 2b, a program operation monitoring means 11 monitoring the operation state of the task and the operation state of the program for the job during the operation of the program for the job, a display device control means 12 controlling the display to the display device 2b of the keyboard 2 on the basis of the operation state of the task and the operation state of the program for the job monitored by the program operation monitoring means 11 and a display switching means 13 switching output signals outputted from either display device control means 12 or key input control means 3 and displaying them at the display device 2b.