Storage medium having stored thereon display control program and display control apparatus
AssigneesNintendo Co., Ltd., HAL Laboratory Inc.
InventorsDaiji Imai, Ryoichiro Atono, Fumihiro Narita
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Abstract
In accordance with a size of a drawing area and a character size, the number of characters arrangeable in the drawing area is calculated. Based on the calculated number of characters, whether a character string in the obtained character size is arranged in the drawing area or the character string in a character size different from the obtained character size is arranged in the drawing area is selected, and the character string is arranged in the drawing area by using the determined character size. The arranged character string is displayed on the display apparatus.
Claims13
A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a display control program executed by a computer of an apparatus for arranging and displaying predetermined character strings in a plurality of drawing areas, the computer being caused to function as:
- operation data acquisition means for acquiring operation data of a user;
- character size acquisition means for acquiring a character size to be displayed, in accordance with operation details indicated by the operation data;
- number-of-characters calculation means for calculating the number of characters arrangeable in each of the drawing areas, in accordance with a size of each of the drawing areas and the character size acquired by the character size acquisition means;
- character string arranging means for selecting, in accordance with the number of characters calculated by the number-of-characters calculation means, whether to arrange each of the character strings in each of the drawing areas by using the character size obtained by the character size acquisition means, or to arrange each of the character strings in each of the drawing areas by using a character size different from the obtained character size, and for arranging each of the character strings in each of the drawing areas by using the selected character size;
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- display control means for displaying the character strings arranged by the character string arranging means on a display apparatus.
A display control apparatus for arranging and displaying predetermined character strings in a plurality of drawing areas, comprising:
- operation data acquisition means for acquiring operation data of a user;
- character size acquisition means for acquiring a character size to be displayed, in accordance with operation details indicated by the operation data;
- number-of-characters calculation means for calculating the number of characters arrangeable in each of the drawing areas, in accordance with a size of each of the drawing areas and the character size acquired by the character size acquisition means;
- character string arranging means for selecting, in accordance with the number of characters calculated by the number-of-characters calculation means, whether to arrange each of the character strings in each of the drawing areas by using the character size obtained by the character size acquisition means, or to arrange each of the character strings in each of the drawing areas by using a character size different from the obtained character size, and for arranging each of the character strings in each of the drawing areas by using the selected character size;
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- display control means for displaying the character strings arranged by the character string arranging means on a display apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.