the invention is a system for interacting with computer graphics . a scene display is generated in response to a list which includes data related to computer generated objects which are to be included in a scene display and ad application program identifier for the application programs which are the source of each computer generated object . an object in the scene is manipulated by a user command and at least one interrogation command is generated which interrogates the list to retrieve data relating to each object affected by the manipulation and an application program identifier related to each application program which is the source of an object affected by the manipulation . the data related to the objects affected by the manipulation and the application program identifier are transmitted to each application program which is a source of an object affected by the manipulation . additional steps as are required are performed by the application programs .