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An apparatus and method for animating editing changes on a display device is provided. The invention is designed to operate preferably with a graphical editing system that permits both handwritten and typewritten data entry. Both the primary changes made by the user and the contextual changes result

An apparatus and method for animating editing changes on a display device is provided. The invention is designed to operate preferably with a graphical editing system that permits both handwritten and typewritten data entry. Both the primary changes made by the user and the contextual changes resulting from the primary changes are animated at a visually apparent rate in multiple steps to permit a user and other viewers of the display device to understand the effects of an editing change on surrounding objects. The number of steps in which the changes are animated depends on the number of changes which must be made and the operation performed.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A display-oriented graphical editing system comprising:a display device for displaying data;a gesture-based graphical editing system wherein the displayed data on the display device is entered as strokes which are amenable to stroke operations, wherein there are no pre-defined stru

[ We claim:] [1.] A display-oriented graphical editing system comprising:a display device for displaying data;a gesture-based graphical editing system wherein the displayed data on the display device is entered as strokes which are amenable to stroke operations, wherein there are no pre-defined structural groupings of the strokes upon entry, and wherein the gesture-based editing system can, on demand, interpret a set of the strokes as anyone of several different kinds of structures;means for selecting at least a portion of the displayed data to be a particular kind of structure;means for selecting at least a portion of displayed data for an editing operation; andmeans for performing said editing operation on said selected display data, including means for animating a prime change to said selected displayed data and means for animating contextual changes to said displayed data not selected by said selecting means, said contextual changes resulting from said prime changes, said prime and contextual changes resulting from said editing operation occurring at a visually apparent rate, and said animation being performed automatically subsequent to said selection of said editing operation to be performed on said selected display data.