Patent ID: 7458032

Claim:
A display control method for displaying a concealed window on a desktop when an object displayed in one window in a multitask window environment is dragged by a pointing device and then dropped in another window, the method comprising the steps of: detecting start of a drag operation; and activating, in response to the detection of the drag operation, a predetermined application associated with the dragged object as a destination for the drop of the dragged object by displaying a concealed window, which corresponds to the predetermined application, on a foremost layer of the multi-window environment, wherein the association between the dragged object and the predetermined application is predetermined by a reference table prior to detecting start of the drag operation; said activating step referring to the reference table, the reference table indicating the association between the object and predetermined applications and priorities of predetermined applications, to determine which of predetermined applications has priority for the object such that the predetermined application with priority for the object is displayed on the foremost layer, wherein each of the predetermined applications have a plurality of modes and the object has one of a plurality of types, the reference table indicating the association between the object, the object type, modes of the predetermined applications, and priorities of the predetermined applications for each mode and type.