Processing apparatus and method for controlling the same

A processing apparatus, comprising:

• a control section that conducts controlling operations for displaying an image on a screen and for controlling each of sections;
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• a processing section that implements various kinds of processing, under the controlling operations conducted by the control section;
• wherein the control section is provided with:
• a display controlling function that controls displaying operations to be implemented on the screen, so as to display an object, which corresponds to contents of a processing, on the screen, and so as to display a cursor, which corresponds to an operation of a pointing device;
• a processing implementation controlling function that implements the processing, which corresponds to the object designated by the cursor;
• a status change detecting function that detects a status change against which it is necessary for the processing apparatus to implement a processing;
• an automatic cursor moving function that, when the status change detecting function detects the status change, conducts the controlling operations so as to automatically move the cursor onto the object, which corresponds to the processing necessary for coping with the status change concerned, or onto a processing implementation position display that indicates such a position at which the processing necessary for coping with the status change concerned should be implemented, on the screen;
• and
• a user management function that manages a usable range of the processing apparatus allotted to a user, based on an authority established for every user, the usable range being a range of processing operations that the user has authority to perform;
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• wherein, under management operations conducted by the user management function, when the processing operation that is necessary for the status change concerned falls into the usable range based on the authority established for the user, the automatic cursor moving function conducts the controlling operations so as to make the cursor move, and when the processing operation that is necessary for the status change concerned is out of the usable range based on the authority established for the user, the automatic cursor moving function disables the controlling operations for making the cursor move, and
• wherein the automatic cursor moving function conducts the controlling operations so as to display a cursor moving path, on which the cursor has been made to move, during a predetermined time interval as a moving locus thereof.