Navigator has support for test-based filtering of controls, and can copy/paste scripts, but it doesn't support copying/pasting to more than one control at a time. That would be an interesting problem to solve. What's your time frame?
gc On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:25 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I'm updating a very old set of stacks that use old HC syntax for "lock > screen". A search with > LC's Find utility says there are 723 instances that may need to be > changed. Right now they look > like this: > > lock screen > -- do any number of things > unlock screen with <effect> > > These all need to be changed to: > > lock screen for visual effect > -- do any number of things > unlock screen with visual effect <effect> > > The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect, > some are simple > lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual effects are not all > the same. Some > handlers have multiple instances of locking the screen with or without a > visual effect. > > I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are > they now?) I really > don't want to do this manually. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode