Appeal No. 1999-1604
Application 08/741,419
as setting its own resource to an invocation to a function
where the call back function to be invoked is entered, is not
cogent. Tonouchi provides an editor which requires a32
designer to enter the name of the callback function for a
second entity, and the editor is used to program the widget
of the second entity. Thus, the graphics editor and code
generator program the code for the widget, and the widget
does not comprise means for setting a resource of that same
widget as claimed.
In addition, we find that Swanson does not teach a widget
that sets its own resources. We agree with Appellants 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. In Swanson the graphical 33
resource editor is custom application 2010, and the
application being edited is client application 2020. Thus,
this graphical resource editor changes the resource values of
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