Ex parte ANDERSON et al. - Page 8




                 Appeal No. 1999-1604                                                                                                                   
                 Application 08/741,419                                                                                                                 


                   application, while the application being edited is a client                                                                          
                   application.  The graphical resource editor changes the                                                                              
                   resource values of widgets in the custom application.                                                                                
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                          In addition, Appellants admit  that Swanson teaches                                                                           
                   applying resource edits to the client application while the                                                                          
                   client application is running, and therefore the widget of                                                                           
                   the client application is set while the widget is running.                                                                           
                   However, Appellants argue, that as shown in figure 17 of                                                                             
                   Swanson, the  on-the-fly customization of the client                                                                                 
                   application relies solely                                                                                                            




                   upon X toolkit 2030, the Xt intrinsics Library 2040 and the                                                                          
                   Xlib 2050, none of which forms a part of a widget being                                                                              
                   modified in the client application.                                                                                                  
                          Appellants further point out that in Swanson  the client                       15                                             
                   application uses an Xlib function to get the custom data                                                                             


                          13Brief, page 9.                                                                                                              
                          14Column 16, line 48 through column 17, line 4.                                                                               
                          15Column 21, line 55 through column 22, line 2.                                                                               
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