Method of interfacing in portable terminal having touchscreen and apparatus thereof

A method and an apparatus for providing an interface of a portable terminal having a touch screen are provided to enable a tree structure of a menu and an execution file at the lowest level to be controlled on one touch screen display, and to enable a user to search for a menu intuitively and to execute the menu. A method for providing an interface of a portable terminal having a touch screen comprises the following several steps. A controller is in a standby mode(S401). If a key for requesting a music regeneration function is pushed, the controller detects the key signal(S403) and displays an album list(S405). If a key for requesting other function, the controller performs a corresponding function(S407). If a user selects one album(S409), the controller regenerates musics of a track recorded in the selected album(S413). If there occurs the first touch event which means that a user touches the touch screen while a music is being regenerated(S415), the controller displays a control panel(S417). The controller checks whether a set time has passed since the control panel is displayed(S419). If the set time has passed, the controller makes the control panel disappear(S421). If the set time has not passed, the controller checks whether there occurs the second touch event(S423). If so, the controller performs a function in accordance with the second touch event(S425). If not so in the step S423, the controller checks whether or not there occurs the third touch event(S427) and performs a function in accordance with the third touch event(S429).