Patent ID: 7823079
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer readable recording medium recorded with a graphics editing program for realizing, in a computer the steps of: arranging an element interactively in cooperation with an input device and a display device; fixing said arranged element from said arranging step by a right click of a mouse or a selection from menus; determining, when said arranged element is fixed by said fixing step, whether or not at least a part of the arranged element is overlapped with an already arranged element; associating, when it is determined by said overlap determining step that the arranged element is overlapped with the already arranged element, the element arranged by said element arranging step through inheriting of relation of the already arranged element; and displaying on said display device the relation between the elements which are associated with one another by said associating step, wherein said fixing step is different from said arranging step; wherein said associating step, when the element arranged by said element arranging step is overlapped with a plurality of the already arranged elements, inherits the relation of the element whose overlapped region is the largest, to associate the elements with one another to provide a relation therebetween.