DISPLAYING NODES VISUALLY OFFSET FROM ASSOCIATED COMPONENTS
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Abstract
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.
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35 Claims
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16. A computer hardware system, comprising:
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at least one hardware processor configured to initiate and/or perform; outputting, to a display screen, a plurality of concurrently-displayed software components; outputting, to the display screen, two nodes respectively associated with two of the plurality of software components; and outputting, to the display screen and responsive to a selection of the two nodes, a link connecting the two nodes, wherein a first of the two nodes is graphically linked to the software component to which the first node is associated, and the first node displays a selected property of the software component to which the first node is associated. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A computer program product, comprising:
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a storage device having stored therein computer-readable program code, which when executed by a computer hardware device, causes the computer hardware device to perform; outputting, to a display screen, a plurality of concurrently-displayed software components; outputting, to the display screen, two nodes respectively associated with two of the plurality of software components; and outputting, to the display screen and responsive to a selection of the two nodes, a link connecting the two nodes, wherein a first of the two nodes is graphically linked to the software component to which the first node is associated, and the first node displays a selected property of the software component to which the first node is associated. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31)
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25. The computer program product of claim 25, wherein
the first node is graphically linked to the software component with a three-dimensional shape, and the three-dimensional shape includes the one node as one portion and the associated software component as a second portion.
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32. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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outputting, to a display screen, a plurality of concurrently-displayed software components; outputting, to the display screen, two nodes respectively associated with two of the plurality of software components; and outputting, to the display screen and responsive to a selection of the two nodes, a link connecting the two nodes, wherein a first of the two nodes is graphically linked to the software component to which the first node is associated, and the first node displays a selected property of the software component to which the first node is associated. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35)
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