Mobile client computer programmed to combine cursor, control and input functions

The present invention contemplates a display generating system, preferably a computer such as a mobile client system, in which text entry to supply data for a defined field in a form or the like is facilitated. In particular, the present invention contemplates combining certain functions heretofore separated in a display which accepts data entry such as letters or numbers entered by hand using a stylus or the like. In a system implementing this invention, the functions of providing a cursor which indicates the location for data entry and providing a field displaying or receiving data entry are combined. By this combination, the field receiving or displaying an entry is positioned immediately adjacent the displayed field for such entry, permitting a user to focus attention on a single location in the display as distinguished from dividing attention between a location at which a cursor prompts for data to appear and a separated field at which the entry is entered or displayed.