Find/Replace Doesn't Work?

String Replace Via Actionscript, Doesn't Work...
Since there is no built-in string replace function for flash and actionscript, so I did the user defined function to take care of that. The user defined function is what I found from the the google search.


Code:


function strReplace(thisStr,what,byWhat) {
while (thisStr.indexOf(what)>-1) {
var tmp = thisStr.split(what);
thisStr = tmp.join(byWhat);
}
return (thisStr);
}



It was working great until it goes into an infinite loop when the parameters was used in strReplace() function like this...


Code:


test = strReplace(strData,"McDonald","<a href='blah blah'>McDonald</a>");



Then I found that in the function code above which showed that the loop that never reached the end of the string as it would start a new loop again once it is finished. So, I did a different function instead..


Code:


function strReplace(thisStr,what,byWhat){
var counter=0;

while (counter<thisStr.length) {
var startPos = thisStr.indexOf(what, counter);

if (startPos == -1) {
break;
} else {
var before=thisStr.substr(0,startPos)
var after=thisStr.substr(startPos+what.length,thisStr.length)
thisStr=before+byWhat+after
var counter=before.length+replace.length
}
}
return thisStr;
}



So, I tried it again and it still go into an infiinite loop. So, what did I do wrong? Need someone with a fresh eyes to see the codes...

Thanks,
FletchSOD

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Can't Find Mistake In Re-write Of Draw Function. No Error Msg, Just Doesn't Work
Hey there, I am trying to convert some code into something easier to re-use without a ridicualous amount of math and excess coding. I also want to be able to tell the mc (when necessary), when this function finishes --> go do ----- ;

the code progressively draws out an outline of a shape (i.e. a square or rect)

here is the my re-write that doesn't work:
Code:

MovieClip.prototype.drawShape = function(x, y, w, h, speed, stroke, color, alpha) {
var v1:MovieClip = this;
v1.points = [ [x, y], [x+w, y], [x+w, y+h], [x, y+h] ];
v1.time = 0;
v1.style = [stroke, color, alpha];

var seg = Math.min(Math.floor(v1.time*v1.points.length), v1.points.length-1);
var nextseg = (seg<v1.points.length-1) ? seg+1 : 0;
var segtime = (v1.time-seg/v1.points.length)*v1.points.length;

v1.onEnterFrame = function() {
var v1:MovieClip = this;

// increment, test for completion
if ((v1.time += v1.speed)>=1) {
v1.time = 1;
v1.onEnterFrame = null;
// this is where i need some sort of check or to set some var, so I can perform
// other actions with the clip, such as tweening to a different location or size
}

// or start drawing
v1.clear();
v1.lineStyle.apply(v1, v1.style);
for (var i = 0; i<=seg; i++) {
if (!i) {
v1.moveTo.apply(v1, v1.points[0]);
} else {
v1.lineTo.apply(v1, v1.points[i]);
}
}

v1.lineTo(v1.points[seg][0]+(v1.points[nextseg][0]-v1.points[seg][0])*segtime, v1.points[seg][1]+(v1.points[nextseg][1]-v1.points[seg][1])*segtime);
};
};


// draw a square
this.createEmptyMovieClip('mc', 1);
mc.drawShape(50, 50, 150, 20, .02, .25, 0xFFFFFF, 100);

//mc.drawShape(x, y, w, h, speed, stroke, color, alpha);
and this was the original code i had, which worked.. i just found it a pain in the *ss to have to code in all the xpos ypos values to position the clip where i wanted. I want to be able to draw the shape within the mc, and then move it around and tween it an do whatever i need with limited frustration. I also want to be able to draw within clips that already exist.

here is the old code i tried to rewrite (i don't know where or when i got this from, i found it in my files randomly)
Code:
drawShape = function () {
// variables
var seg = Math.min(Math.floor(this.time*this.points.length), this.points.length-1);
var nextseg = (seg<this.points.length-1) ? seg+1 : 0;
var segtime = (this.time-seg/this.points.length)*this.points.length;
// increment, test for completion
if ((this.time += this.speed)>=1) {
this.time = 1;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
// draw
this.clear();
this.lineStyle.apply(this, this.style);
for (var i = 0; i<=seg; i++) {
if (!i) {
this.moveTo.apply(this, this.points[0]);
} else {
this.lineTo.apply(this, this.points[i]);
}
}
this.lineTo(this.points[seg][0]+(this.points[nextseg][0]-this.points[seg][0])*segtime, this.points[seg][1]+(this.points[nextseg][1]-this.points[seg][1])*segtime);
};

// draw a square
this.createEmptyMovieClip('mc', 1);
mc.time = 0;
mc.speed = .03;
mc.style = [.25, 0xE2F7D4, 100];
mc.points = [
// [x, y]
[370, 220],
[430, 220],
[430, 280],
[370, 280]
];
mc.onEnterFrame = drawShape;
what am i doing wrong?... anyone see any reason it's not working?...

any help is appreciated...

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Drag'n'drop Bring To Front Doesn't Work (couldn't Find A Solution Anywhere)
Sorry to start this topic again but i couldn't find a solution for my prob anywhere in the forum or the tut-pages.

i want to achieve what kirupa explaines in his swap depth tutorial, i want the visitor to drag different objects + the one selected comes to the front.

i did everything explained in the tutorial, but there is one difference: i don't want the draggable area to be the whole MC wide, that's why i placed a button into a MC. this button should have the dragging actions and drag the whole clip.
so far it works, but the MC wouldn't be brought to front, although i typed the correct path:


Code:
on (press, release, dragOver, dragOut) {
_root.x += 2;
_root.txt2.swapDepths(_root.x);
}
on (press) {
startDrag(this, false, -448, -170, -66, 310);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}
this sounds all pretty complicated, you'll probably get my point when seeing the actual swf

thanks in advance for any suggestions

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Find & Replace
While using the find and replace function w/ action script, it is finding all instances of the string (whether embeded or not).

For example, I have two variables, one is CT the other is PRODUCT. When finding and replacing CT with CT4, it will also change the PRODUCT variable to PRODUCT4. Is there a syntax to use to specifiy exact matches only? Tried quotes, but no dice.

thanks for any help.

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Find Replace
is there a way to do a find/replace for an entire movie?

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Find And Replace
it was advertised (i thought) that flash mx could do a global FIND AND REPLACE. so beyond a FIND AND REPLACE in the current frame actions, it could replace throughout the whole movie: buttons, clip actions etc...

does anyone know?

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Find And Replace
Hi, the majority of my movies used attached movie clips, therefore everything's in the library. Is it possible to do a find and replace on everything.

I need to replace "_root.BeepSnd02.start();" with a function, as it should have been.

Am I screwed?

M@

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Find And Replace Help
I need some help writing a function to find and replace a character in a string.
I searched the board here and haven't found anything yet.
I have several strings of all different lengths in this format:
my_title_has_underscores

I'd like to reformat the strings to look like this:
my title has underscores

Can you guys help?

Thanks
- P

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Find And Replace
Hi i found this topic from about 5 years ago on the forum.


Code:
trace(stripSpaces(_global.firstword))
function stripSpaces(input) {
var newString = "";
for (j=0; j<input.length; j++) {
if (input.charAt(j) != " ") {

newString += input.charAt(j);
}

}
return newString;
}
That does a briliant job of striping the spaces but if i were wanting to replace the spaces with the plus symbol "+" how would i go about it. I have tried adding + "+" in lots of places but the results i get just add a plus infront of every letter.

Cheers

Al

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Find And Replace AS2
I'm looking to find and replace a piece of a url. I researched the site and found this piece of code


ActionScript Code:
String.prototype.replace = function(find, replace) {
    return this.split(find).join(replace);
};
var a:String = "http://dev.thesitename.com";
trace(a);
a = a.replace("dev","www")
trace(a);

However, at run time it doesn't replace the "dev" with "www". It traces the function ok...

Any clues or helpful hints to replace this and have it replace all my strings?

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Find And Replace
Is find and replace as powerful as in Dreamweaver where you can make global changes? I have a repetitious change to make in over 100 Flash documents and was wondering if setting up a Flash Project was the answer.

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Find And Replace Bug
I think I've found a bug in MX2004 (also happens in Flash 8), but I'm curious to see if anyone else has noticed this. The problem exists in the Find & Replace feature. If you perform a global F&R on the entire file, it seems to complete successfully. However, if you close the movie and re-open it and perform the search again, you will notice that it finds many of the ones it supposedly replaced before. The only replaces that actually took are ones where the replaced variable was displayed in the actions panel at the time the F&R was performed.

Attached is a good test case.
1) Search for "test_var" (you will find 3 instances of it).
2) Replace it with something else.
3) Without digging in to verify that it actually replaced them, save and close the file.
4) Re-open the file and perform the search again. You will see that now 2 of the 3 have reverted back to "test_var".

Anyone got any ideas as to what's going on here?

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Find And Replace
when i use the find and replcae feature, i would like to be able to see where string that was found is located.right now i can only see what layer its on.
thanks
franklin
franklinswebdesign.com

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Find & Replace
Is there a find and replace function for use when writing actionscript? Similar to the find and replace function in microsoft word. I need it because I have a component that I need to edit and I need to change all the words "car" into "speed". Can anyone help me?

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Find And Replace
I'm not sure what I should be searching for

I need to chop off whatever is after the last . in a file extension and replace it with jpg.

So if the file name was dave.gif I need to convert it to dave.jpg

As always thanks for any links, code, etc.

D

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Find And Replace Bug
i need to do a batch find and replace on about 200 files. i can open them all then hit replace all, then publish and it works fine. but when i save the file, close it and re-open, it's like nothing has been changed. the only way i can overcome this is by opening the actionscript window and adding a space then removing it, and then saving the document.

anyone else encountered this bug? i can't find anything about it online. and i have to find a way to overcome this issue, otherwise this work will be the death of me...

any suggestions?

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Find & Replace
Is there a find and replace function for use when writing actionscript? Similar to the find and replace function in microsoft word. I need it because I have a component that I need to edit and I need to change all the words "car" into "speed". Can anyone help me?

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FIND And Replace?

I'm trying to search my actionScript for some text using the 'find' facility in the movie explorer (in Flash 5).

The problem is that it only finds whole words only - I want to seach for all occurences of Õ - which is what you get when you copy text from MS Word containing some so called 'smart quotes' and paste them into flash. Flash doesn't want to find it since it is embeded in a word and is not a whole word.

It would be nice if you could do *Õ* or something...

Any clues?

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Find & Replace Actionscript In A Fla - Possible?
You can find & replace strings of HTML source code in an entire site using Dreamweaver.

Is it possible, using Macromedia Flash 5, to find & replace lines of actionscript in an entire fla file?

E.g. find _root and replace with _root.clipname ? It would save me loads of time.

Also, when's Flash 6 coming out?

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Find & Replace In Textfields
Hi everyone,
How would you code a find & replace' function that would take an input textfield text and replace certain charaters by their 'translation' into a dynamic textfield. Say i have a list of characters (around 20 of them) and i have their counterpart (20 other characters) and I would like on press of a button to have the input text 'translated' into the dynanic field. I have no idea how I can manipulate a string like that..
Thanks for any help!
gparis

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Find And Replace Text
I'm working on an email app in flash that will allow the user to type their message, then send it using PHP. My problem is if they hit the ENTER key, or put quotes in the message, it will break the script. I need to figure out how to find the
or "" and replace it with something else. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[FLASH MX] Find And Replace
Hello, all. I've seen the code to do what I'm about to ask how to do somewhere, but I can't remember where now.

Is there a way to find a string inside a string, and replace it? I've done lots of searches, but, to my great surpirse, to no avail.


Thanks in advance,
Furry

[edit]
BTW - I'm using Flash MX, if you didn't see the title of this thread...
[/edit]

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Find And Replace Text?
Here is what I am trying to do: I have a paragraph typed out in a font that is unreadable. I want to have the font change to one that is readable. However, I want it to change one letter at a time.

For Example:
Let's say this is my sentence:
My name is Tom. (Assume it is an unreadable font)

What I want to have happen is all the m's become readable, then the y's, then the n's, then the a's, etc.....

(btw, I am using MX)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Find Color And Replace
I've imported a grey shape from illustrator, rgb file that I THOUGHT matched a shape in a file I'm modifying, but the grey is a little off from the old one in the file, so bitmapped graphics laid on top of it look bad. How can I find the color in the original shape and match it to the new one in flash?
Thanks,
z

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Find And Replace Is Driving Me Mad
Does anybody else have this problem?

if I do a find and replace on action with an entire document it wont always 'find and replace' every instance!!

and sometime once you think youve found it all - alls working fine and then SAVE next time I go into the fla - the code seems to have reverted back again!

I think im going mad - or at least flash is driving me that way

heeeeeeeeelpppp!!!!!! (please :-D )

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Find And Replace Is Crashing CS3
Is anyone else having any trouble with Flash CS3 Find and Replace?

I am simply trying to replace a string of actionscript that exists in about 20 different frames with a alternate string.

Out of the 20 instances, it is only finding one.

When I check "Regular expressions", the program crashes - although I've never had to check that in the past - I always just made sure the Actionscript option was checked.

Thanks for any input.

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Find And Replace Subscripts
I am in the process of converting a lot of text from from normal formatting into subscript. I have tried find and replace and it will not recognize the input of a subscript character. Is there anyway to find and replace text such as H2O to format it so that is changes into the proper format? Or will I have to through and highlight every 2 and select subscript? Thanks for any help.

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Find & Replace Across A Project
Hi There,

Does anyone know if its possible to use the find and replace tool across a complete flash project. I have a project that is made up of over 400 different .fla's and need to change certain bits of actionscript on each file. Is there a way I can do this globally, using the find and replace tool or must I go into each and every file and do it manually?

Thanks

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[AS2] Simple Find And Replace
I had a minute so I whipped up this;

String.replace()
string.slice(replaceFrom:String, replaceTo:String[, caseSensitive:Boolean]) : String

Returns a string that replaces all substrings of a string within a main string. The original String object is not modified. If the end parameter is not specified, the end of the substring is the end of the string. If the caseSensitive parameter is not specified it is read as false, and case sensitivity is applied.

Parameters

replaceFrom:String - The string that will be replaced.
replaceTo:String - What all instances of replaceFrom will be replaced to.
caseSensitive:Boolean - Whether or not all instances of replaceFrom will be replaced to replaceTo, regardless of it's case. Default is true.
Returns

String - A whole string of the specified string with all instances of replaceFrom replaced with replaceTo.
Example

The following example creates a variable, string, assigns it a String value, and then calls the replace() method using a variety of values for the replaceFrom, replaceTo and caseSensitive parameters. Each call to replace() is wrapped in a trace() statement that displays the output in the Output panel.

ActionScript Code:
var string:String = "An Apple a day KeePs The Doctor away"String.prototype.replace = function(replaceFrom:String, replaceTo:String, caseSensitive:Boolean):String  { var start:Array = this.split(replaceFrom); tmp = start.join(replaceTo); if (!caseSensitive) {  var start:Array = tmp.split(replaceFrom.toLowerCase());  tmp = start.join(replaceTo);  var start:Array = tmp.split(replaceFrom.toUpperCase());  tmp = start.join(replaceTo); } return tmp;};// Replace all instances of "Apple" in string with "n Slice Of Cake"// Case sensitive is not specified, it will be read assumed truetrace(string.replace("n Apple", " Slice Of Cake"));// Returns "A Slice Of Cake a day KeePs The Doctor away" // Replace all instances of "a" in string with "b"// Case sensitive is specified as truetrace(string.replace("a", "b", true));// Returns "An Apple b dby KeePs The Doctor bwby" // Replace all instances of "a" in string with "b"// Case sensitive is specified as falsetrace(string.replace("a", "b", false));// Returns "bn bpple b dby KeePs The Doctor bwby"  



EDIT: Had the case sensitivy around the wrong way around

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Batch Find/Replace AS
I'm trying to figure out how to batch Find/Replace a line of AS in hundreds of .flas.

I thought I'd use this challenge as an opportunity to make my first JSFL command.

The Help instructions say to select a bunch of stuff from the History panel, then save it as a command.

Problem is . . . Find and Replace doesn't show up on the History panel. What gives?

Anyone happen to have a find/replace AS jsfl lying around, or know where I can find one?

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Find And Replace Text?
Here is what I am trying to do:
I have a sentence typed out as static text in a font that is nearly unreadable. I would like the font to be changed one letter at a time.

For example:

My name is Lear. (assuming this is in an unreadable font)

What I want to happen is first all the m's become readable, then the y's, then the n's, then the a's, etc.

(I am using MX)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Actionscript Find & Replace Question
Hey,
Is there any way to get the Actionscript Find & Replace function to work on an entire .fla file??

I need to change about 100 x & y coordinates & I would REALLY like to find a way to automate it.

Any help is mucho appreciated.
Tim

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Actionscript Find & Replace Question
Hey,
Is there any way to get the Actionscript Find & Replace function to work on an entire .fla file??

I need to change about 100 x & y coordinates & I would REALLY like to find a way to automate it.

Any help is mucho appreciated.
Tim

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Find And Replace Characters In String...
(F5)
What's the best way to find and replace a certain character from within a string, that I got from user input ?

say i want to replace all "ä" with ae and vice versa.

thanks

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Find And Replace (hard Kind)
Ok, here is the problem ... I have a large amount of text in a variable ... within that text there are dates formated like this

xx-xx-xxxx (month[2]-day[2]-year[4]) ...

Now this is what my problem is ... I have to compare the year (string) to this exact year (1873) if the year within the text is less that number, I need to change it to 1900 ...

but I can't just search for a specific number ... I need to search for a specific text string ...

you understand ... The year will always be different ...

is there a way you can do this in flash ... if you don't understand, I'll try and explain it better ...

thanks

-S

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Strange Find/Replace Thing
Hi,

I'd be grateful if anyone could help with this - I have a number of Fla files that I need to regularly change the urls in. These are in buttons and other places in the file and the best way for me to do it is find/replace.

I enter the existing url and the one I want to change it to, and then click replace all. I get the message that 5 have been changed, which is correct. I now save the Fla file, and when I open it again, I find that only one of the urls have changed!

I really don't understand why, because when I go through the file after making the change, I can see that it has been done. Then if I save from there it does save them correctly!

Is there any way to do this by Find/Replace, without having to look individually over all the changes every time? Seems to defeat the whole purpose of having a Find/Replace.

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Find & Replace Function Broken Or Something?..?
I noticed some time ago that when trying to run find & replace on actionscript didn't work find any of these:

}

if that's all I put in the 'find' window. So that was irritating. NOW I can't even get it to find multiple lines!!!!! What the heck is the deal???

If I want to find and replace code now - I have to do it one line at a time!! which doesn't work right because it just leaves empty lines in the code that I can't find & replace either....!!. What the heck!?

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Find/replace Tool Does Nothing Usefull
hi

I have upgraded to flash 7.2 and for the life of me I cannot use the new find replace tool.

It seems to tell me that the code I am looking for is somewhere in my movie, but is there any way of getting flash to actually do anything usefull with this information like jump to the line of code that contains the string I am searching for? And maybe highlight the code in the page so that I can identify where it is?

All that seems to happen is that in the dialogue box it confirms that the code is somewhere in the movie - but heaven knows where.

Is this a bug or am I just not using it properly?

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Find And Replace Brain Twister
I have 6 arrays called st1frts, st2frts, etc through st6frts each of which will contain a series of numbers like this:
[0,2,5,7,9,12,14,17,19,21]

The arrays can have any of 21 possible numbers starting at 0.

I want to search through 6 strings called copyLn1, copyLn2, etc. up to copyLn6 each of whose value will be something like this...
copyLn1 = "|-0----2--"
to find each instance I find of an element from the above array and replace it with the next element in that array. For example, I'd like to change the above string to this:
|-2----5--
and then to this:
|-5----7--
and then:
|-7----9--
and so on.

Each of the strings might contain any one of the elements from its corresponding array and I want to move each element up to the next array value.

The problem I'm having is in trying to loop through and do a find and replace that ignores the last change. In other words, in the example above I'm successfully finding the 0's and replacing them with 2 which in the first time through the loop results in this:
"|-2---2--"
but then in the next time through the loop both the 2's get changed to 5's and so on.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Find And Replace Window Problem
HI - when I use the Edit/Find and Replace function, the results portion at the bottom doesn't reveal enough information under Location. I can see "Scene 'Scene 1' -> Layer ' " and that's all. I know if I click on that line the relevant window will open but when doing a "Find All" it's useful to know more information about the Location instead of clicking on every line.
That Location column of the window will not widen with the drag icon. I can move the dividers from the other columns to the left but not to the right.

Is there a Preference somewhere that I could set? Or is this post actually a "bug report"?

Also - when I click on a result line, the relevant Actionscript window opens but the line is not highlighted. Is that the way this is supposed to be?

TIA any input.

JL
Version 8.0/Mac G5 dual/2GB RAM

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Find-and-replace A URL In The Component Inspector?
I've got a whole bunch of Media Player components in my file (50-ish), and I need to change the URLs on all of them. Just the first part of the URL because the domain hosting the video files changed.

Thing is, 'Find and Replace' doesn't pick up strings in the Component Inspector Is there any way I can change this without manually going through each component?

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Find And Replace Characters In String?
Hello.
Checked google, but only found some outdated,homemade functions.
Is there no other way to Find char in a string and replace it?
the shortest function i found was about 30 Lines long.

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Find And Replace FONT Features
Most of my text, in several frames and layers, is in Arial 20, but would like to have the ability to quickly change it to Arial 18, on the fly.

How can I do that in Flash MX?

Thank

Al

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'find And Replace' In Selected Areas Of Code?
is it at all possible to use the 'find and replace' function selectively. say i have a body of text. I just want a potion of it changed. with find and replace funtion, i tried to select the area i need changing but flash goes from the top of document to the bottom, scanning anything. I just want to change a portion of the code not everything. The only solution i can come up with is copy and paste the text i want changed and paste into a new frame, use the find and replace option , and then paste back the changed text. surely there must be an easier way. which guru knows the answer?

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Find And Replace Text In A String Variable
I want to be able to find and replace text within a flash variable

example:

Code:
text = "the |bold|cat|/bold| sat on the mat";
change to:

Code:
text = "the <b>cat</b> sat on the mat";
is this possible?
if so do you know of any documentation?

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Dumb Q: Problem With Find And Replace Window In Flash 8
Dear Flash Group,
apologies if this is trivial, it's my first day using Flash.
I downloaded a Flash project from
http://www.flashorb.com/articles/benchmark_files/flash-benchmark.zip. This
flash calls into a web service at localhost:8080. I used the 'Find and
Replace' window within Flash Professional 8 to locate the string
'localhost:8080' and replaced it with plain 'localhost'.

However, when I 'Debug the Movie' (Ctrl-Shift-Enter), it still tries to
access port 8080! Obsiously, my replace command did not do what I thought it
would do. I opened the FLA file in a binary editor, and saw 4 more
references to 8080, One if them in 'Properties' of a WebServicesConnector,
but I cannot figure out how to find the other occurences.

Checking on google, I see lots of people having similar problems, but no
solutions
Any ideas?
Regards, /george

PS. What do you guys do for code completion - is there a tool that would
bring Flash on par with an professional IDE?

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Doesn Anyone Know Where I Might Find Nav Like These?
or how to create these nav's? i've seen one of these around
an open source but i cant recall exactly cause i dont know how these are called.

1. http://www.profey.com/zeta/nav1.jpg
2. http://www.profey.com/zeta/nav2.jpg

the second image is definitely a slide type of nav/gallery thing
what it does is when you click on the current image it slides that one and the next one to the center of the screen like the first. in a cycle.

Thank Yoo

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Global "find And Replace" Macro
I'm trying to create a macro to automate the process of doing a "find and replace" within the whole FLA file.

I could normally accomplish this via an external application that could send keyboard shortcuts to the Flash application. First, I'd send a "Ctrl-F" to bring up the Find/Replace window, but then I'm stuck because there doesn't seem to be a way to easily tab to the "Replace All" button.

So my question is if there's a way via ActionScript or JSFL or some other means to automate the "find and replace" process.

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Why Doesn't It Find My Second Movie
I should be ashamed for asking but I haven't used flash in over a year.

Basically i've got two movies on the main timeline one after the other. It plays the first one ok but I can't for the life of me target the play head to back up to the find and 2nd movie instance.

Sorry for such a noob question. I've attached the flash file.

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