NETWORK EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible an intuitive understanding of a user by displaying in areas from the first to the n-th provided on a control screen of host equipment the number n of equipment in one-to-one correspondence, holding a correspondence table for indicating relation between a coordinate of an arbitrary place of the control screen and equipment to be selected, explicating selected equipment in accordance with the correspondence table and having the host equipment control the selected equipment. SOLUTION: A micro computer 1 refers coordinate data from a cursor coordinate detection part 8 to an equipment selection table 4 and judges that equipment to be elected is a CS tuner 11. On a display screen of a control display monitor 6, a color of display of a surrounding area of an area for indicating the Cs tuner is changed, and that the CS tuner 11 is in a condition of being selected is visually communicated to a user. The micro computer 1 judges that equipment to be an object of control is only the CS tuner and executes an equipment control program 5. The equipment control program 5 is in hierarchy structure. When the CS tuner 11 is selected, a P1 program is executed.