Find and replace window
hi,
when I launch fw the find/replace window is open in the middle of my work area. How can I change this so it's not open upon launching??
tia
Debi
William_Donelson wrote:
> The "Find and Replace" dialog window has got to be the
most obnoxious bit of
> programming I've seen, even by Macromedia standards.
>
> 1) Are there any command-keys that work with it, e.g. to
CLOSE it from the
> keyboard without having to mouse up to the "Close"
button ?
>
> 2) Is there a way to type Cmd-F and then type the string
to search for AND
> HAVE it actually go into the "Find" field in the window?
(I've typed Cmd-F then
> a string 1,000 times, only to see that the string has
NOT gone into the search
> field, UNLESS the dialog was previously closed. And
there's no Keyboard command
> to close the window either, see (1) above)
>
> Thanks!
>
> William
Command . (Command Period) closes box, as in any mac
programme.
Mick
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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?george,
> 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.
Agreed.
> 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.
Might they be the result of that WebServicesConnector
reference?
> Checking on google, I see lots of people having
> similar problems, but no solutions
That's really odd, actually. I'm on these boards every day,
and I've
never heard of this issue. I don't *think* the Find/Replace
dialog visits
panel contents, such as the Component Inspector panel, but I
wouldn't swear
to that.
> What do you guys do for code completion - is there
> a tool that would bring Flash on par with an
professional IDE?
Well, Flash is a professional IDE, of course. By definition,
if you pay
for something, you have acquired a professional product or
service. I know
what you mean, though. Flash itself rocks, but the Actions
panel can be
glaringly weak. Personally, I use SE|PY to edit ActionScript.
http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php
Sorry I can't speak to your other issue. :-/
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design." -
Possible to dock "Find and Replace" Window?
Is it possible to group the "Find and Replace" window in one
of the panels? I would prefer to have it at the bottom of my
workspace with Properties and Results.
Thanks!It is indeed possible, providing whatever text is inside a tag of some sort. It could be in a list, heading, paragraph, div, etc... Use the Search: Specific Tag option. See screenshot (excuse the sloppy image).
Nancy O. -
Find and Replace window - command-keys?
The "Find and Replace" dialog window has got to be the most
obnoxious bit of programming I've seen, even by Macromedia
standards.
1) Are there any command-keys that work with it, e.g. to
CLOSE it from the keyboard without having to mouse up to the
"Close" button ?
2) Is there a way to type Cmd-F and then type the string to
search for AND HAVE it actually go into the "Find" field in the
window? (I've typed Cmd-F then a string 1,000 times, only to see
that the string has NOT gone into the search field, UNLESS the
dialog was previously closed. And there's no Keyboard command to
close the window either, see (1) above)
Thanks!
WilliamWilliam_Donelson wrote:
> The "Find and Replace" dialog window has got to be the
most obnoxious bit of
> programming I've seen, even by Macromedia standards.
>
> 1) Are there any command-keys that work with it, e.g. to
CLOSE it from the
> keyboard without having to mouse up to the "Close"
button ?
>
> 2) Is there a way to type Cmd-F and then type the string
to search for AND
> HAVE it actually go into the "Find" field in the window?
(I've typed Cmd-F then
> a string 1,000 times, only to see that the string has
NOT gone into the search
> field, UNLESS the dialog was previously closed. And
there's no Keyboard command
> to close the window either, see (1) above)
>
> Thanks!
>
> William
Command . (Command Period) closes box, as in any mac
programme.
Mick -
The Find and Replace "Done or Found" message is partially cut off for "Search" dropdown choices "Source Code, Text, Text (Advanced), but not for "Specific Tag". It appears to be a programming bug sizing the "Find" and "Replace" text boxes too big for the "find and Replace" window. Has anyone else encountered this problem.
Excuse me for resurrecting this, but I have been living with this same issue, and many more issues (I won't list them here), since migrating to CS5 (understood this thread is for CS6. However, my post is relevant none the less). If anyone has the fix I would love to know what they found. But sadly, I doubt there is one.
My system and display settings are also Win7 at 100% display. When doing a Find and Replace I can barely see what the results are for how many occurrences in the find window because the bottom is cutting off half of the text, just like the OP screen shot above. If the results reads "Done. 2 items found" it can easily be mistaken for "Done. 3 items found" if I don't study it carefully because of the bottom half of the "2" is cut off.
I don't want to rant here, but I will a little which I'll confess is the real purpose of my post. I am so disappointed in Adobe for so many different bugs in their software suite which they choose not to address, or even acknowledge as existing. I've had their tech support on the phone while they were recording my screen as I recreated issues for them, they never got back to me on any of them. I just got lip service how their engineers are looking into it and they'll get back to me. This of course was when CS5 still had free support under warranty.
At this point I'm numb to it all and I'm stuck using their software because I'm used to it, which ultimately is their goal anyway I'm sure. You win Adobe.
BTW...if anyone replies, please do not suggest the basic troubleshooting steps. All of the issues I've had exists after multiple re-installs on formatted hard drives and on both of my PCs made by two different manufacturers with different hardware specs (both exceeded min hardware requirements). Not to mention been through various techniques while on the phone with them..
Ahh... I feel better now. -
Prevent Find and Replace from closing after clicking "Replace All"
With the latest release of Dreamweaver CC (2014.1.1), there's been a minor change to the way Find and Replace works. I use Find and Replace a lot to clean up and delete code, so I might do many searches in a row to get things tidy. With the new version however, the Find and Replace window always closes after clicking "Replace All", which is very cumbersome. I need to open it up again, and it doesn't remember the text I entered to use as a replacement.
Does anyone know if there's a way to prevent this window from closing after doing a Replace All? The previous version of Dreamweaver would keep it open and remember the text either until I changed it or I closed Find and Replace myself.
Any pointers that would get me a little closer to the previous version's functionality would be appreciated!You need to do a find/change for each code individually, but it should be scriptable to take the .csv file and use it to load the find and change values. I'd try asking this over in the scripting forum: InDesign Scripting
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[Forum FAQ] How to find and replace text strings in the shapes in Excel using Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
$text = “text1”,”text2”,”text3”,”text3”
$Excel
= New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
$Workbook
= $Excel.workbooks.open("d:\shape.xlsx")
#Open the excel file
$Worksheet
= $Workbook.Worksheets.Item("shapes")
#Open the worksheet named "shapes"
$shape = $Worksheet.Shapes
# Get all the shapes
$i=0
# This number is used to replace the text in sequence as the variable “$text”
Foreach ($sh in $shape){
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text
# Get the textbox in the shape
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text =
$text[$i++]
#Change the value of the textbox in the shape one by one
$WorkBook.Save()
#Save workbook in excel
$WorkBook.Close()
#Close workbook in excel
[void]$excel.quit()
#Quit Excel
Before invoking the methods and properties, we can use the cmdlet “Get-Member” to list the available methods.
Besides, we can also find the documents about these methods and properties in MSDN:
Workbook.Worksheets Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835542(v=office.15).aspx
Worksheet.Shapes Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff821817(v=office.15).aspx
Shape.TextFrame Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839162(v=office.15).aspx
TextFrame.Characters Method (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838596(v=office.15).aspx
After running the script above, we can see the changes in the figure below:
Figure 2.
Please click to vote if the post helps you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.Thank you for the information, but does this thread really need to be stuck to the top of the forum?
If there must be a sticky, I'd rather see a link to a page on the wiki that has links to all of these ForumFAQ posts.
EDIT: I see this is no longer stuck to the top of the forum, thank you.
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How do I find and replace text in PHP files?
How can I in CS3 make sitewide changes to the text in PHP pages without changing variable names etc that have the same name?
For example if I have an installation of a PHP forum and I want to change every instance of the word 'forum' to 'message board'...
If I used the 'inside tag' search with " as the tag, then if "" contained a variable called 'forum' it would also be changed and therefore corrupt the code....
Is there a simple way around this?
Thanks!
I'm using CS3 on Windows Vista.It looks like you're trying to find and replace source code, so you may be able to look at the various places that are looked at when finding and uncheck the ones that don't apply.
But, if it's all source code then that won't help. One thing that may work is to expand the search option - for example if the work "forum" that you're wanting to change it preceded by another word, or character or something that sets it apart, then do you find on that. You can expand that search phrase as far out in either direction that you need to to make it different, if of course that is practical in your situation.
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Find and Replace simple action crashes Illustrator CC
I am now trying Creative Cloud and I came with this bug. When I use a simple action to find and replace a text string in my file it will crash the Illustrator.
My actions is pretty simple:
Find > "aa" (I do have to check all the options to work)
Find and Replace > "aa" to "2014.01.29"
This action works well if I use it once by the Edit menu, but if I close the Illustrator and reopen, it'll not work again and will crash the software.
Everyday I do update my action to actual date, so the action will work normally but sometimes I do have to close the app and I have to make the action again and again everytime.
This was a problem already in CS5, last version that I used.
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How do I find and replace a word in PDF?
How do I find and replace a word in PDF?
In the Find window (Ctrl+F) there's an option to replace the searched text.
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, claireb88184899 <[email protected]> -
Hi there, I wrote a batch-processing script for find change queries and thought I share it with you. You can get it over here
You can process GREP, TEXT, GLYPH and OBJECT searches.
Purpouse
While creating books in InDesign with several documents we always come across some find change queries that need to be used again, and again, and again. To make this process easier you can just grab their names and put them into a list. The script will than try to process all your queries in one click.
prerequisites
make sure you have a toml file.
make sure the toml file is next to the script.
make sure the toml file has the right formatting (see below in section TOML)
if you want the script to autoexecute (without toml file selection), make sure the .toml file has the right name: "batch-find-and-replace.toml"
make sure your fcqueries work right
Usage
Place the script and the toml file into your Scripts Panel Folder
define some find and change queries and save them via the InDesign dialogue.
get the xml file names and add them to the "batch-find-and-replace.toml" file in the right spot. text search goes into text.files = [], grep search goes into grep.files = [] and so on. Make shure to remove the .xml from the filename. You can find these files on:
Mac OS Users[username]\Library\Preferences\Adobe InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
Windows XP Documents and Settings[username]\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign[Version][Language]\Find-Change Queries[query type]
the .toml file should be located next to the script file and have the appropriate name (batch-find-and-replace.toml). If so the script wont ask for the toml file and process the data right away. If not the script will ask you to select the .toml file.
Thats it. Watch the magick happen.
TOML
Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language is a simple markup language that makes settings human readable. It is still in development and may change a lot. But still. It is a pretty easy language and can be learned by anyone.
The basic toml filer looks like this:
# these are the basic settings
# the MUST be there
do_text = true
do_grep = true
do_glyph = true
do_object = false
# now the file names
# they have to be in one line
# the toml specs say you can break lines in arrays
# but the toml.js does not allow that at the moment
[text]
files = ["my_first_text_find_and_change","another one"]
[grep]
files = ["somegrepsearch", "find tabs", "something else"]
[glyph]
files = []
[objects]
files = []
MUST HAVE Settings
With the do_text, do_object, do_grep and do_glyph you can define if the script should do the corresponding find and replace. Set them to true or false.
CAN HAVE Settings
In the [text],[grep],[glyph] and [objects] areas you can define the filenames that should be processed. Make sure the filenames are written right. If there is a file mentioned that does not exist the script will throw an error. It will try to process all the .xml files it can find.
!IMPORTANT! you MUST remove the .xml from the filename in the list as shown above.
The Script is here --> https://raw.github.com/...find-and-replace.jsx
The basic .toml file here --> https://raw.github.com/...ind-and-replace.toml
The Readme here --> https://github.com/...lob/master/README.md
And the whole package here --> https://github.com/...e/archive/master.zipGreat script, it worked perfectly with grep, text, glyph, not only worked with OBJECTS, because I do the same operation and does not work. Can you give me a hand? Thank you.
In arquivo.toml is thus:
# These are the basic settings
# The MUST be there
do_text = true
do_grep = false
do_glyph = false
do_object = true
do_all_docs = false
# Now the file names
# They have to be in one line
# TomL the specs say you can break lines in arrays
# But does not allow the toml.js que momento
[text]
files = ["_OVER_BLACK_TXT", "_OVER_CORPROF_TXT"]
[grep]
files = []
[glyph]
files = []
[object]
files = ["_OVER_BLACK_FILL", "_OVER_BLACK_STRK"]
This is the image of the Scripts Panel folder: -
Enabling tabbing to controls on DW CS 4 Mac in Find and Replace
I have used Dreamweaver on Windows for many years. I'm now working on the Mac.
I have configured OS X Leopard for improved keyboard access to UI controls. This allows me to tab to dropdown (or popup) menu and use the keyboard to quickly select menu items. I realize this is a personal preference but personally I'm more productive this way. This setting affects the OS and appears to work in many applications. It doesn't appear to work in Dreamweaver CS4.
I work on one PHP project that has hundreds of files. I routinely need to use Find and Replace to search in "Selected Files in Site" but often need to only search in "Current Document", so I'm routinely switching between these options. I'm also routinely toggle the "Use regular expression" option. On Windows I could change these settings without having to use the mouse. I could quickly tab (or shift-tab) from the "Find:" and "Replace:" text boxes to the "Find In:" and "Search:" Dropdown Menus or the various "Options:" checkboxes, but find that one the Mac I have to use the mouse to change the dropdowns and checkboxes.
Have I missed a Dreamweaver setting or a magic keyboard shortcut that would enable full keyboard access to DW's Find and Replace and other Dialogs?Yep.
"A Better Finder Rename" is great for batch file renaming.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11366
Renamer4mac may be all you need.
Best check out VersionTracker. In fact everybody should have this site bookmarked and visited daily.
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Reformatting files in Dreamweaver: Batch series of .dwr files (find and replace) consecutively
I have to do complicated reformatting of an entire site. It's been simplified to a series of find and replace tasks for each file. Each find and replace string has been saved as a .dwr file. Currently I have to load and execute each .dwr file.
How do you batch process or automate this task in Dreamweaver? In other words, queue up a series of .dwr files to be executed consecutively?OK here we go.
This example, a simple Dreamweaver Command Extension, will execute two Find and Replace commands in one go. (It can be any number of Find and Replace commands.)
The first command replaces "the" and "this" with "phe" and "phis". The second command replaces <ul> ... </ul> with <ol> ... </ol>. (These of course can be any Find and Replace.)
You need two files: a HTML file (for the UI) and a Javascript file (for actions). I named them "Find and Replace Test.html" and "Find and Replace Test.js". (They can be any name.)
Find and Replace Test.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Adobe//DWExtension layout-engine 10.0//dialog">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<Title>Find and Replace Test</Title>
<script src="Find and Replace Test.js"></script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form>
<p>Are you sure?</p>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Find and Replace Test.js
function canAcceptCommand() {
return true;
function commandButtons() {
return new Array("Go!", "doIt()", "Cancel", "window.close()");
function doIt() {
dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace({
searchString: "th(e|is)",
replaceString: "ph$1",
searchWhat: "document",
searchSource: true,
useRegularExpressions: true
dreamweaver.replaceAll();
dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace({
searchString: "<(/?)ul>",
replaceString: "<$1ol>",
searchWhat: "document",
searchSource: true,
useRegularExpressions: true
dreamweaver.replaceAll();
window.close();
Basically you can call any number of this pair of functions in the script:
dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace(findAndReplaceObject);
dreamweaver.replaceAll();
Place these HTML and JS files in this directory:
Dreamweaver App Directory/Configuration/Commands/
Then in Dreamweaver, open "Insert" window. (You need to have a HTML file open in order to make the Insert window active.) At the top of the Insert window there's a category dropdown menu ("Common" etc.). Do alt + click (ctrl + click) - then you'll see an item "Reload Extenesions" at the bottom of the dropdown. This will load this extension to DW. (Alternatively you can restart DW to load the extension.)
Now it's ready to run the Extension. Open a HTML document you want to modify. Go to "Commands" on the menu bar. At the bottom of the dropdown there should be an item "Find and Replace Test". Select and enjoy
Notes
This example is set to perform the Find and Replace on the current document. You can change the scope to the entire site, or the selected files, etc, just like in the Find and Replace dialogue box. The API doc is here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/apiref/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f9e09bcf-7ed a.html
You can use dreamweaver.setUpComplexFindReplace(xmlQueryString) command instead. xmlQueryString is basically <dwquery> ... </dwquery> in your .dwr files, you can copy from your .dwr files. However xmlQueryString needs to be one continuous string (no line breaks), which can be a pain The doc: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/apiref/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f9e09bcf-7ed 9.html
Command Extension general example in the doc: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/extend/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f53d6ec3-7fe 6.html
I hope all of these make sense...
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/ -
Sorry, my only "question" about this is WHY Apple would put such poor software on the market. Functions such as "find and replace" in Numbers are so incomplete and poorly designed they make the entire package useless. F&R only does text, cannot F&R in selected columns and.....will start to search an entire spreadsheet using the last "find" entry and/or starts to search before all of the "find" has been typed. When working with a large spreadsheet, Numbers will start its own find search, not allowing the "replace" entry to even be entered until it searches the entire spreadsheet (sometimes that requires force quitting Numbers to make it stop the useless search.)
I have been a Mac user since the very first 64K model. For Apple to release Numbers and then discuss how "elegant" it is an embarrasment to all Apple fans.
Mac in SmyrnaJerrold:
Thank you for your response.
The problem is, I HAVE sent comments to Apple regarding Numbers before. As we all know, Apple has made many many decisions (automatic save, etc., etc.) without any attempt at asking their users if that change would be useful or a problem.
My hope is the dedicted Apple community might be able to get some attention for a long standing problem. Apple has issued multiple updates for numbers that do nothing to correct the problems real users have communicated to them.
I have been the "promoter" of Apple and Apple products in two large MS Windows dominated companies over the last 25 plus years. By putting products such as Numbers on the market to "business" users and then letting them discover things like Number's find and replace capabilities does a disservice to the entire family of Apple products in the business marketplace.
If the problem is with copyright problems with MS Excell, tell us. Don't keep telling us about elegant non functional software!
Mac in Smyrna -
Question about Find and Replace PL/SQL option in Forms Builder
Dear All
I have a small question .
I am using Find and Replace PLSQ/SQL in forms Builder ( Edit - Find and Replace PLSQL) to search any code in a form.
Let say I am searching for EMP .
Then all the places is coming where EMP is used as well as EMPloyee , EMPloyee_Desc tables also coming .
So is there any way to serach only the EMP part .If you look closely to the right of the "Find What" field, you should see a button - "Expression". This allows you to add some logic to your search. Alternatively, depending on how you code, you could just look for spaces. For example, if you are looking for EMP and not EMPLOYEE, search for EMP with a blank space before and after it (assuming you code this way) or use something like this \bEMP\b This would work for me because I code the same way I write sentences - each work is separated by spaces.
<blockquote> EMPLOYEE := EMP || ' - ID';</blockquote>
In this example, seaching for EMP with a blank space after would find what I wanted. However, if you only search for a trailing blank, you may end up also finding words like tEMP. This is where have a blank space before each word is helpful.
Other, more valuable expressions could be written to accomplish your task. Refer to the Forms Builder Online help for more information about using Expressions in the Find and Replace search window.
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