Find and Replace

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lohill
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Find and Replace

Post by lohill » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:48 pm

I am trying to use 'Find and Replace' from the edit menu in order to change 'DataGrid 1' to 'DataGrid 2. I get a list of some 48 instances in the Search Results area of the IDE but the buttons for 'Replace' and 'Replace All' always are disabled. Is there some setting that I have wrong?

This is for Revolution Enterprise 4.5.0-dp-2 on a Macintosh.

Thanks in advance for any guidance you have.
Larry

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Re: Find and Replace

Post by oliverk » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:38 pm

Hi Larry,

We decided to disable find and replace on scripts which are not open in the script editor because it cannot be undone and might cause big damage to people's projects if something went wrong. However you should be able to make this work using the main IDE menu (Edit -> Find and Replace), which brings up a different dialog that does allow this. Be sure to save your stack(s) first though and check everything is working ok after the replace is finished.

Regards
Oliver
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