Screen control method and electronic device thereof

An electronic device comprising:

• a display unit having a display area;
• a memory;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• display an application program in the display area,
• display a pop-up window over at least a portion of the application program,
• in response to movement of the pop-up window by a position movement input on the pop-up window made by a user, remove from display a part of the pop-up window that is moved outside the display area while maintaining display of a remainder of the pop-up window,
• detect whether a reference portion of the pop-up window contacts a predefined area of the display area while the position movement input on the pop-up window is maintained by the user,
• in response to detecting the reference portion of the pop-up window contacting the predefined area, remove the remainder of the pop-up window from the display area, display, in the display area, a new selectable icon corresponding to the pop-up window for a subsequent, redisplay over at least a portion of the application program, and
• in response to an input made on the new selectable icon, redisplay the pop-up window, wherein the input made on the new selectable icon to redisplay the pop-up window includes a multi-touch input to the new selectable icon detected more than a threshold number of times,
• wherein a first portion of the pop-up window is gradually removed from display while a second portion of the pop-up window continues to be displayed in the display area as the reference portion of the pop-up window moves towards contact with the predefined area of the display area, until contact between the reference portion of the pop-up window and the predefined area of the display area is detected,
• wherein an entirety of the new selectable icon is visually different from any portion of the pop-up window, and
• wherein the new selectable icon is at least partially displayed within a physical portion of the display from which the remainder of the pop-up window is removed when the reference portion contacted the predefined area.

An electronic device comprising:

• a display unit having a display area;
• a memory;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• display a pop-up window including content in the display area,
• in response to movement of the pop-up window via a position movement input on the pop-up window made by a user, removing from display a part of the pop-up window that is moved outside the display area while maintaining display of a remainder of the pop-up window,
• detect whether a reference portion of the pop-up window contacts one of a plurality of predefined areas of the display area while the position movement input on the pop-up window is maintained by the user, and
• change display of the pop-up window differently according to which of the plurality of predefined areas is contacted,
• wherein the remainder of the pop-up window is removed from display when contacting a first predefined area, and a new selectable icon is displayed corresponding to the pop-up window for a subsequent redisplay over at least a portion of an application program in the display area,
• wherein the input made on the new selectable icon to redisplay the pop-up window includes a multi-touch input to the new selectable icon detected more than a threshold number of times,
• wherein a first portion of the pop-up window is gradually removed from display while a second portion of the pop-up window continues to be displayed in the display area as the reference portion of the pop-up window moves towards contact with the predefined area of the display area until contact is detected,
• wherein an entirety of the new selectable icon is visually different from any portion of the pop-up window, and
• wherein the new selectable icon is at least partially displayed within a physical portion of the display unit from which the remainder of the pop-up window is removed when the reference portion contacted the first predefined area.