DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display control device capable of displaying icons of structured data so that the hierarchical positions of the icons seen from the whole hierarchical structure can be grasped.

SOLUTION: This device comprises an operation part acquiring an instruction for at least a screen display of icons based on a user's operation; a storage part storing data for icons of at least each layer; a control part arranging and displaying the icons of each layer along each icon arrangement axis. The control part moves, in case that the operation part acquires an instruction from the user, each icon arrangement axis in a different direction with each icon arranged and displayed therein based on the instruction, and generates image data displaying the icon of each layer.

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