Interface apparatus, interface method in information processing apparatus, and interface program

摘要

An interface apparatus controls at least activation and termination of one or more registered application programs in accordance with user operations. The apparatus includes a first holding section configured to hold information of the application programs; a user operation acceptance section; a second holding section configured to receive and hold status information of each application program; a list presentation section configured to present an application program list window and to indicate at least whether a status of each application program is a running status or a terminated status based on the status information; a selection section configured to select an application program to be controlled from among the application programs in accordance with a predetermined first user operation; and a control section configured to control the status of the selected application program based on the status information when the user operation acceptance section has accepted a predetermined second user operation.