Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus having a printer driver includes a display part that displays on a screen a first image, a second image, a first setting item that relates to the first image and a second setting item that relates to the second image, a control part that determines one of the first and second images as a main image and the other of them as a sub image, displays both of the main and sub images on the screen, and receives a selection made by a user of the apparatus, and a display switching part that displays the first image as the main image relating to the first setting item when the first setting item is selected by the user, and the second image as the sub image.
1. An information processing apparatus having a printer driver, comprising:
a printer driver information storage part that stores
printer driver setting screen information, which includes information of first and second setting screens,
display image information, which corresponds to the first and second setting screens, the display image information including information of an image corresponding to the first setting screen and information of an image corresponding to the second setting screen;
a printer driver setting screen display part that displays one of the first and second setting screens and displays both of the images corresponding to the first and second setting screens on the displayed one of the first and second setting screens wherein one of the images corresponding to the displayed one of the first and second setting screens being displayed as a main image and the other of the images corresponding to the other of the first and second setting screens being displayed as a sub image, and
a printer driver display switching part that displays one of the first and second setting screens, which is selected by a user and defined as the one setting screen, on an upper layer with respect to the other of the first and second setting screens, which is defined as the other setting screen,
under a condition where the first setting screen is positioned on the upper layer and when the second setting screen is selected by the user, the printer driver display switching part
switches the first and second setting screens such that the second setting screen becomes the upper layer, and
displays, in the second setting screen, the image corresponding to the second setting screen as the main image and the image corresponding to the first setting screen as the sub image, and
under another condition where the second setting screen is positioned on the upper layer with respect to the first setting screen, and when the first setting screen is selected by the user, the printer driver display switching part
switches the first and second setting screens such that the first setting screen becomes the upper layer, and
displays, in the first setting screen, the image corresponding to the first setting screen, as the main image and the image corresponding to the second setting screen as the sub image.
2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the upper layer means a state where a portion of the other setting screen is displayed and a whole of the one setting screen, which is selected by the user, is displayed.