DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD OF DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREIN
First Claim
1. A data processing apparatus which can communicate with a plurality of peripheral equipment through a predetermined communication medium, comprising:
- obtaining means for obtaining construction information of said plurality of peripheral equipment;
discriminating means for discriminating an overlap state of each icon per peripheral equipment in a peripheral equipment list to display statuses of said plurality of peripheral equipment and a cursor which can be moved and indicated; and
control means for, when it is determined by said discriminating means that said cursor is overlapped on any of the icons per peripheral equipment, allowing the construction information relative to said overlap-indicated icon per peripheral equipment obtained by said obtaining means to be caption-displayed at a position near the icon which is being indicated by said cursor.
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Abstract
To freely establish a peripheral equipment selection operating environment of excellent operability which can remarkably reduce an operation burden which is applied until construction information of selectable peripheral equipment can be confirmed and can easily confirm the construction information of the selectable peripheral equipment by everyone by a simple operating instruction, a CPU obtains construction information of a printer that is being selected and default setting on the basis of a selection instructing state relative to a selectable printer candidate on a network and allows them to be caption-displayed at a position near the position indicated by a cursor on a printer selection picture plane displayed on a CRT.
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1 Claim
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1. A data processing apparatus which can communicate with a plurality of peripheral equipment through a predetermined communication medium, comprising:
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obtaining means for obtaining construction information of said plurality of peripheral equipment;
discriminating means for discriminating an overlap state of each icon per peripheral equipment in a peripheral equipment list to display statuses of said plurality of peripheral equipment and a cursor which can be moved and indicated; and
control means for, when it is determined by said discriminating means that said cursor is overlapped on any of the icons per peripheral equipment, allowing the construction information relative to said overlap-indicated icon per peripheral equipment obtained by said obtaining means to be caption-displayed at a position near the icon which is being indicated by said cursor.
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