Data processing apparatus, operation accepting method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with browsing program

An operation accepting method performed by a data processing apparatus, the data processing apparatus including

• a display portion capable of displaying an image and
• a position detecting portion capable of detecting one or more positions designated by a user on a display surface of said display portion,
• the method comprising:
• a browsing step of executing a browsing program, externally acquiring content described in a markup language, and displaying on said display portion at least a part of a display image corresponding to said acquired content, and further, in response to input of one of a plurality of gesture events corresponding respectively to a plurality of types of processes determined by said browsing program, performing one of said plurality of types of processes that corresponds to said input gesture event;
• a mouse event generating step of, in response to detection of one or more positions by said position detecting portion, generating one or more mouse events each including a piece of positional information indicating a corresponding one of said one or more positions;
• and
• a gesture event determining step of determining one of the plurality of gesture events on the basis of a set of one or more mouse events generated in said mouse event generating step;
• said browsing step including
• a display image generating step of, in the case where said content includes a description for displaying an embedded image which is generated as an application program different from said browsing program is executed, generating a display image in which the embedded image generated as said application program has been executed is arranged in an embedded area determined by said content, and
• a selecting step of, in the case where a position indicated by one of the one or more mouse events on the basis of which a gesture event has been determined in said gesture event determining step falls within said embedded area, selecting either the gesture event determined in said gesture event determining step or the set of the one or more mouse events on the basis of which the gesture event has been determined, on the basis of a type of said determined gesture event.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with a browsing program performed by a computer which controls a data processing apparatus,

• said data processing apparatus including
• a display portion capable of displaying an image,
• a position detecting portion capable of detecting one or more positions designated by a user on a display surface of said display portion,
• a mouse event generating portion operable, in response to detection of one or more positions by said position detecting portion, to generate one or more mouse events each including a piece of positional information indicating a corresponding one of said one or more positions, and
• a gesture event determining portion to determine one of a plurality of gesture events on the basis of a set of one or more mouse events generated by said mouse event generating portion,
• the browsing program causing said computer to perform:
• a browsing step of executing the browsing program, externally acquiring content described in a markup language, and displaying on said display portion at least a part of a display image corresponding to said acquired content, and further, in response to input of one of the plurality of gesture events corresponding respectively to a plurality of types of processes determined by said browsing program, performing one of said plurality of types of processes that corresponds to said input gesture event,
• said browsing step including
• a display image generating step of, in the case where said content includes a description for displaying an embedded image to be generated as an application program different from said browsing program is executed, generating a display image in which the embedded image generated as said application program has been executed is arranged in an embedded area determined by said content, and
• a selecting step of, in the case where a position indicated by one of the one or more mouse events on the basis of which a gesture event has been determined by said gesture event determining portion falls within said embedded area, selecting either the gesture event determined by said gesture event determining portion or the set of the one or more mouse events on the basis of which the gesture event has been determined, on the basis of a type of said determined gesture event.