On 03/18/2012 07:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 3/18/12 5:04 AM, Richmond wrote:
Oh Dear, its that time of the month again.
Yes it is; Richmond's error trawl......
read "SDLC" and other acronyms that cover up
incredibly time-consuming exercises.
So, here I am merrily going through some 50 objects changing 57620 to
57618
and 57768 to 57769; very, very tedious indeed.
Of course life would be about 1,000,000 times easier if each object had
the same code;
but they don't; just the lines containing those number that need to be
altered.
Has anybody any bright ideas how this might be done semi-automatically?
Need more info. Are you editing scripts or properties? Are the numbers
icon IDs or what?
The numbers are Unicode addresses.
The main difficulty is that in a "normal" situation one could open the
whole stack up in some text editor such as Textwrangler and
do a search and replace. The snag is that some instances of 57768 need
to be changed to 57769 and some don't.
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I have, now, completed this exercise the slow way, so this discussion
can now take on a more general colour.
If icon IDs, in the future, you can use "the id of img 'nameOfImg'"
instead of hard-coded numbers if you think they may change later.
For now, if these are in scripts:
get the script of control x -- x would be a name or number
replace "57620" with "57618" in it
set the script of control x to it
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