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Re: [IDE] rename controls?

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Feb 13, 2003
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Yeah, as long as you get the whole thing you're comparing, like up to the
next space, sounds like that should do it!

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Evans" <camping at txcyber.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: [IDE] rename controls?


>
> Judith,
>
> I have the old and new name when the name is changed. The problem occurs
> when the old name is part of another control's name. Example: user changes
> PushButton2 to ExitButton. There is also a control PushButton21.
> PushButton21 sometimes gets changed when it should not. I convert
correctly
> within setHandler events for the changed name. It may be wrong when the
name
> is within a procedure for another control or in the generic events such as
> (General). I think I just need to do a little more work with my first
> attempt to change the name and check the next position of the compared to
> name.
>
> Maybe I can get this in as a last minute addition to the next release
after
> all.
>
> Dan wrote:
> Yeah, I figured it probably wouldn't be easy to do.
>
> Here's a suggestion that's not as good as "auto-change", but might be
better
> than nothing if it would work: make a right-click pop-up menu choice
(Change
> Control Name?), that would ask for a newname for the control that was
> right-clicked on; that way, you'd have both the old control name & the new
> one available, so you could search through all the events for the old one
&
> replace it with the new one. Might not be so easy, though, to find any
> references to the control *inside* procedures.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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