Information handling system, method and article of manufacture including context specific eraser/undo tool

摘要

The invention is an information handling system, which includes one or more processing units, a memory system, and one or more I/O controllers all connected to a system bus, the I/O controllers controlling various input/output devices such as a keyboard, a mouse, a display device, communications adapters and the like, and an operating system program for controlling the processors, the memory system, and the I/O controllers, which provides a user interface, one or more tools which may be represented by objects on a tool bar or the like presented on the display device by the user interface, and an eraser/undo tool for erasing a portion of an existing image presented on the display device by the user interface by direct application of the object representing an eraser tool to the portion of the image to be erased, such that marks previously obscured reappear in the areas to which the eraser tool has been applied.