Display control device and input device

A display control method by which a computer having a display area management function to manage a display area displayed in a back-and-forth relation on a display device and a plurality of moving picture reproducing functions, said display control method comprising:

• detecting a predetermined operation conducted by use of an input device;
• extracting, in response to an event that the predetermined operation is detected in said detecting, a moving picture display area defined as the display area linked to any one of the plurality of moving picture reproducing functions on the basis of information acquired from the display area management function;
• and
• changing a back-and-forth order of the display areas so that the moving picture display area extracted in said extracting is displayed on the foremost plane of said display device.

A readable-by-computer recording medium recorded with a display control program to make a computer having a display area management function to manage a display area displayed in a back-and-forth relation on a display device and a plurality of moving picture reproducing functions, function as:

• a detecting unit to detect a predetermined operation conducted by use of an input device;
• an extracting unit to extract, in response to an event that said detecting unit detects the predetermined operation, a moving picture display area defined as the display area linked to any one of the plurality of moving picture reproducing functions on the basis of information acquired from the display area management function;
• and
• a changing unit to change a back-and-forth order of the display areas so that the moving picture display area extracted by said extracting unit is displayed on the foremost plane of said display device.