Method and apparatus for managing a windowing environment of a user interface in an information processing system.

摘要

A method and apparatus for reordering windows and window objects with primary application in a multiple window environment in an information processing system. The windows or window objects may be reordered sequentially or according to some hierarchical relationship among the windows. Each window in the multi-window display contains a system menu icon which may be selected for providing a choice to reorder the windows on the display according to either sequence or hierarchy. A user selects the system menu icon in any one of the opened windows on the display. One or more window counters is incremented each time a window or window object is opened on the display. A window counter value is then assigned to each window so that it can be readily reordered. Reordered windows and window objects are typically displayed in a cascaded configuration on the display screen. <IMAGE>