Controlling display of a plurality of windows
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorYoshio Horiuchi
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Abstract
A control method for controlling display on a display apparatus displaying a plurality of windows in an overlapping manner comprises detecting that contents to be displayed on at least one of the plurality of windows are updated, and displaying an update notification including information identifying a window having the updated display contents on an update notification window provided common to the plurality of windows, in response to the detection of an update of the display contents.
Claims19
A control apparatus for controlling display on a display apparatus displaying a plurality of windows in an overlapping manner, comprising:
- a detection unit for detecting that contents to be displayed on at least one of the plurality of windows are updated;
- and
- an update notification unit for displaying an update notification including information identifying a window having updated display contents on an update notification window provided common to the plurality of windows, in response to the detection of an update of the display contents by the detection unit.
A computer program product for controlling display on a display apparatus displaying a plurality of windows in an overlapping manner comprising:
- a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:
- computer usable program code configured to detect the contents to be displayed on at least one of the plurality of windows are updated;
- and
- computer usable program code configured to display an update notification including information identifying a window having updated display contents on an update notification window provided common to the plurality of windows, in response to the detection of an update of the display contents.
A control method for controlling display on a display apparatus displaying a plurality of windows in an overlapping manner, comprising:
- detecting that contents to be displayed on at least one of the plurality of windows are updated;
- and
- displaying an update notification including information identifying a window having the updated display contents on an update notification window provided common to the plurality of windows, in response to the detection of an update of the display contents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.