From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: 01 July 2013 02:31
To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
Subject: Re: [BLACKBOX] Layout->Replace...
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-Alexander,
-You are correct.
-If one could do what I am requesting then one could
-change a slider into any other control type(a rotating cube)
-whose hidden variables might not at all correspond to the
-original type.
The only variables you should need to change are those controlled by Properties. The ‘known’
Field of properties automatically handles issues of ‘correspondence’. It all works kind of like magic.
Actually my Module CtrlsFieldApply also transfers the size and position to the newly inserted Control,
but that information belongs to the Container rather than the Control itself.
- BUT in the case that the semantics are the
- same then it would be nice to syntactically simply rename
- the type.
You are not really ‘renaming the type’, you are removing an unwanted Control of the old type, and inserting a newly
created Control of the new type; a much bigger task than just updating one Property.
-I have by hand gone through and created new forms corresponding
-to the old forms. Tedious.
-Doug
Agreed. That why I wrote CtrlsFieldApply a decade ago!
Like most contributors to CPC (I guess) I find it nice to know when your work
is of use to other people.
Robert
On 6/30/2013 3:40 AM, Alexander Iljin wrote:
Hello, Douglas!
You are trying to use the simple text replace tool for a task that is not (contrary to what the UI lead you to believe) is NOT a text replacement.
What you essentially want to do is:
- create instances of some similarly named, but semantically different objects (they even come from another subsystem!);
- assign some, but possibly not all, of their possibly unpublished properties the values from some existing controls on the form;
- delete controls with type names that match the pattern, if any, from the form;
- add the newly created controls to the form.
So, even though the last two steps seem close to, overall this is much more complicated a task than text replacement in some character arrays, which is what the tool is designed for.
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