such as those manufactured by international business machines corporation fig2 depicts a graphical user interface 60 which may be displayed in video display 14 of data processing system 10 of fig1 and is only exemplary of one type of commercially available graphical user interface the interface depicted in fig2 is a graphical user interface from the 34 paintbrush program 34 of the microsoft windows program 3 11 as is shown the graphical user interface 60 includes textual commands 62 which may be selected through use of either the cursor or graphical pointing device 90 iconographic representations 64 of program functions which are available and a workspace 66 workspace 66 is utilized to create modify or review software objects which are composed of textual components graphical components or a mixture of textual and graphical components in fig2 software object 68 is a map of the american southwest which includes textual and graphical components as is typical software object 68 is much too large in size to be presented in its entirety within workspace 66 in order to bring other portions of software object 68 into view scrolling operations may be performed in accordance with the present invention as is conventional graphic user interface 60 includes graphical pointing device 90 which may be.