Appeal No. 1999-1604
Application 08/741,419
require compiling before execution, and because they have not
been compiled they cannot be executed, and because they
cannot be executed they cannot set their own resources.
Thus, Appellants argue that Tonouchi does not teach the
claimed widget comprising a means which when executed in a
computer system at runtime set a resource.
As regards Swanson, Appellants admit that Swanson 12
teaches modifying the resources of a widget at runtime.
However, Appellants assert that Swanson does not remedy the
deficiencies
of Tonouchi by teaching a widget that sets its own resources,
and that the resources of the widget are set to one or more
invocations of arbitrary functions.
Appellants assert that Swanson teaches a graphical
resource editor that is useful for editing and changing the
resource values of a completely separate application that is
running concurrently with the graphical resource editor.
Referring to figure 17 of Swanson, Appellants point out that
the graphical resource editor is identified as a custom
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