Patent ID: 8739054

Claim:
A label data creating apparatus comprising: a display having a display screen; and a print-data creating and editing unit that creates and edits print data to be printed out on a long print medium, the print data being created and edited by displaying in the display screen a layout edit screen that virtually indicates a print area of the long print medium, wherein the print-data creating and editing unit comprises: an application storage device that stores an application to edit data including text or image information by inserting the data in the print area of the long print medium; a display control unit that performs control so that the display screen enabling a drag-and-drop operation of the data is displayed on the display by deleting the layout edit screen therefrom, in a case where the application has been activated; a window display unit that constantly displays a window showing the application has been activated, in forefront at an inner periphery of the display screen from which the layout edit screen has been deleted, the window performing two functions of a drop area for dragging and dropping the data and an edit area for showing text, the window having a substantially rectangular shape long in a latitudinal direction; an input device that is used in inputting text; a function-change unit that changes a function of the window to the edit area displaying text which was entered through the input device in a case where the window is clicked with a mouse, and changes the function of the window to the drop area in a case where the data is dragged and dropped in the window; and an output control unit that performs control so that text which was entered through the input device is displayed on the window functional as the edit area as the print data in a case where the function of the window is changed to the edit area, and so that the function of the window is changed to the drop area and thereby the data is virtually displayed in the print area by displaying again the layout edit screen that virtually indicates the print area of the print medium, in a case where the data is dragged and dropped on the window.