Displaying nodes visually offset from associated components
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsYoshiroh Kamiyama, Kotaro Shima
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Abstract
[Object] To facilitate user's operations. [Solution] An editing apparatus is provided including: a component output unit for outputting a display screen on which a plurality of components are displayed; a node output unit for outputting a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of components on the display screen so that the nodes are displayed along with the plurality of components so as to overlap the display of the plurality of components; and a setting unit for setting, in response to a user's instruction of association between two or more of the nodes, an association between two or more of the components corresponding to the two or more of the nodes.
Claims21
1-15. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method for an editing apparatus configured to support editing of an arrangement of a plurality of components and a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of components to be displayed on a display screen, comprising:
- first determining, by the editing apparatus, whether an operation to one of the plurality of nodes is being conducted;
- second determining, by the editing apparatus and responsive to the first determining, whether an operation to set an association between first and second nodes is being conducted;
- creating, by the editing apparatus and responsive to the second determining, a link between the first and second nodes;
- and
- displaying, on the display screen, a link between the first and second nodes, wherein
- the first node is graphically linked to a first component to which the first node is associated, and
- the first node is configured to enable a selection, from among a plurality of properties, of a property of the first component.
An editing apparatus configured to support editing of an arrangement of a plurality of components and a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of components to be displayed on a display screen, comprising:
- a hardware processor configured to execute the following executable operations:
- first determining whether an operation to one of the plurality of nodes is being conducted;
- second determining, responsive to the first determining, whether an operation to set an association between first and second nodes is being conducted;
- creating, responsive to the second determining, a link between the first and second nodes;
- and
- displaying, on the display screen, a link between the first and second nodes, wherein
- the first node is graphically linked to a first component to which the first node is associated, and
- the first node is configured to enable a selection, from among a plurality of properties, of a property of the first component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.