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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. BUT in the case that the semantics are the
same then it would be nice to syntactically simply rename
the type.
I have by hand gone through and created new forms corresponding
to the old forms. Tedious.
-Doug
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- assign some, but possibly not all, of their possibly unpublished properties the values from some existing controls on the form;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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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. BUT in the case that the semantics are the
same then it would be nice to syntactically simply rename
the type.
I have by hand gone through and created new forms corresponding
to the old forms. Tedious.
-Doug
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- assign some, but possibly not all, of their possibly unpublished properties the values from some existing controls on the form;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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Alexander
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