Search & Replace being a bit unhelpful

[richmond62]

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This is both odd and a pain-in-the-bum:

1. The button script contains significantly more than 1 incidence of the search phrase.

2. I wish to replace that search phrase, but am unable to do that owing to only one incidence being reported.

[Klaus]

I used the "Find and Replace" dialog just yesterday.

Yes, it does not report how many occurrences of your string were found, only where these werde found!
But will reliably replace all occurrences in the found script(s)!

[richmond62]

Thank you very much.

werde

It does, indeed, replace aa the vocables.

[Klaus]

Yep, a little typo...

But please just try it next time, I can assure, your machine will not explode!

[richmond62]

Thanks, Klaus, it warks byously.

[dunbarx]

Richmond.

Here is a stack that does what you want. It loses all instances of "good men" in a field of text. Follow the button script...

Craig

LoseString.livecode.zip

(1.21 KiB) Downloaded 179 times

[dunbarx]

Ah. did not see Klaus' post.

You can get the number of occurrences in mine by finding the number of lines of the variable "findList".

Craig

[richmond62]

I should like to extend and colourise the
Find and Replace stack as:

1. I find the white-on-white tough on my eyes.

2. I would like a significantly longer textField for the Replace phrase.

But I cannot locate the stack . . .
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I mean the right-hand stack.

[richmond62]

Come to think of things . . .

. . . a tree diagram of all the stacks inwith the LC IDE would be extremely useful.

[bn]

But I cannot locate the stack . . .

The stack is called "revSearch" and is located within the app bundle on Mac:

/Users/userName/Applications/LiveCode 9.6.6 (rc 1).app/Contents/Tools/Toolset/palettes/revsearch.rev

Kind regards
Bernd

[richmond62]

That's super: Thank you very much.

I was looking for it using the Application Browser and getting nowhere.

[richmond62]

Thank you once again.
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This modified stack is derived from the Open Source version of LC 9.6.3

[bn]

I was looking for it using the Application Browser and getting nowhere.

When the stack is open it shows up in the Project Browser. The trick is to know the name

For that I use from the message box

Code: Select all

put the name of the mouseStack 

then move the cursor over the stack and hit return.

For the location the same procedure as above but

Code: Select all

put the long name of the mouseStack

Kind regards
Bernd

[richmond62]

The trick is to know the name

Ain't dat de trouf bwana.

Your messageBox 'trick' is pure gold: Thanks.

[richmond62]

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