Method for graphical presentation of objects and technical processes on a screen and computer program product used for this purpose

The invention relates to a method for graphical presentation of objects and/or technical processes on a screen, as well as an editor implementing the method. For the graphical reproduction of objects or the illustration of technical processes it is frequently necessary to work with a number of views. In most cases an overview representation is required as well as one or more individual representations of part of the object or of the process. With graphical user interfaces there is thus the requirement for switching between these different views, with the user rapidly losing the overview in the case of a number of views. To resolve this problem it is proposed that a tooltip ( 4 ) appears when a pointing device such as a computer mouse for example uses its mouse pointer to remain for a predetermined time over a predetermined section ( 6 ) of the display area ( 3 ), and that the tooltip ( 4 ) graphically presents at least a part of the object and/or of the process ( 2 ) in a modified way compared to that shown in the display area. In this way, with the aid of the tooltip, the same object and/or the same technical process can be presented in a number of views.