ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic instrument which allows a touch pad to operate as a touch pad or a mouse in accordance with a user's desire without separately preparing a mouse by allowing the touch pad to be attached and detached to and from the electronic instrument and to maintain a mouse function. SOLUTION: Upon detecting the mounting of a pointing device (cPad 20), a control program 300 sets the pointing device to a touch pad mode, which is a program configuration for the touch pad, on the basis of a setting table 301 and executes the program for the touch pad mode in accordance with the location of the cPad 20 instructed by the user (ST14). Furthermore, upon detecting the removal of the cPad 20, the control program 300 sets the pointing device to a mouse mode, which is a program configuration for the mouse, on the basis of the setting table 301 and executes the program for the mouse mode in accordance with the location of the cPad 20 instructed by the user (ST16). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI