Appeal No. 95-4377
Application 08/160,348
appearance in response to the associating of the cursor with
a macro is also to indicate a state of computer operation.
Thus it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art, at the time the invention was made, to change the
appearance of the cursor in response to . . . associating
the cursor with a macro to indicate the state of operation.
[Answer at 6-7.]
Appellants do not dispute that Cowart discloses using a
macro to create a predefined process consisting of a pluraility
of keystrokes. However, they argue, and we agree, that Cowart
does not disclose or suggest that a macro can be initiated on an
object in response to selection of that object by a movable
cursor. Instead, it discloses (at 424, 741) initating a macro in
any of the following ways: (a) opening the Recorder window and
double-clicking on the macro to be run; (b) highlight the macro
and then choosing Macro, Run; (c) pressing the shortcut key
(e.g., Ctr + P) from any location; and (d) clicking on a icon
associated with the macro. None of these techniques involves
associating the macro with the cursor such that selection of an
object by the cursor causes the macro to be performed on or in
that object.
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