Appeal No. 1999-1452
Application 08/436,830
the more specific concept of addition and splicing of claims 3 and 4 are known editing
operations in a general program editing environment such as in Pazel as well as the
admitted prior art with respect to OOP. The ability to change the selected properties
and handlers of claim 5 also is a known concept in editing prior art object-oriented
programs.
With respect to these overall considerations as a whole of the admitted prior art,
Berry and Pazel, the features recited in dependent claim 8 and independent claim 9
relating to a particular window approach with which to perform the editing operations of
the claimed invention clearly would have been obvious to the artisan as the most ideal
setting in which to perform the editing operations. In this respect, because Pazel deals
specifically in a Windows environment, his teachings and showings are most telling.
The specific recitation of a first, second and third panel relating to a corresponding
object of interest, its parent and any children objects thereof, come initially from the
normal editing operations of the admitted prior art as to OOP. Even so, in a more
traditional programming context, even Figure 2 of Pazel depicts the debug program
within the RAM 16 in Figure 1 in a Windows environment having different portions each
of which may be selectively considered a panel which may be operated upon by the
user. For example, the source file 2 in Figure 3 and its particular Windows based-
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