Ability to rename scripts and expressions

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brianc
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Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by brianc » 08 Dec 2012 19:29

Unless I'm missing something (quite possible), scripts and expressions can't be renamed in the editor. This would be a very welcome addition.

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by Traxus » 18 Dec 2012 23:33

Agreed, this is pretty annoying.

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by oran-outan » 03 Jan 2013 13:18

+ 1

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by dBlicious » 14 Jan 2013 09:12

This, plus automatically update references to the changes throughout the project. Kind of like a global find/replace.

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by Traxus » 14 Jan 2013 18:34

dBlicious wrote:This, plus automatically update references to the changes throughout the project. Kind of like a global find/replace.
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Agreed this would be awesome but I've been fooling a bit with the raw jzml files latley (its basically an xml), and I have to say that request is easier said than done...

say we've got an expression, fade=1
then we've got an expression, fadeOut=4

and we want to rename fade to fooBar...
some hefty regex work (hefty for me atleast becuase I hate/am terrible with regex) has to be done to prevent fadeOut from becoming fooBarOut...

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by macay » 10 Feb 2013 11:04

+1

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by dBlicious » 13 Feb 2013 20:47

Traxus wrote: say we've got an expression, fade=1
then we've got an expression, fadeOut=4

and we want to rename fade to fooBar...
some hefty regex work (hefty for me atleast becuase I hate/am terrible with regex) has to be done to prevent fadeOut from becoming fooBarOut...
It's actually not too bad, you just have to make sure the next character after your search string is a non-word character. I had to do a bunch of regex for a project so I learned a lot more than I ever wanted to :lol:

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by Rolix » 20 Mar 2013 11:36

Traxus wrote:
dBlicious wrote:This, plus automatically update references to the changes throughout the project. Kind of like a global find/replace.
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Agreed this would be awesome but I've been fooling a bit with the raw jzml files latley (its basically an xml), and I have to say that request is easier said than done...

say we've got an expression, fade=1
then we've got an expression, fadeOut=4

and we want to rename fade to fooBar...
some hefty regex work (hefty for me atleast becuase I hate/am terrible with regex) has to be done to prevent fadeOut from becoming fooBarOut...
I do this with the Lemur XML-files in Notepad++, in this case it's a simple search/replace with the "only whole word" option checked. I agree there may be cases where a search item is not unique, if this is the case the automic reference update could simply exit or provide a dialog to choose a unique item.

Most of the modern development editors do have that kind of refactoring feature, it's a great time saver.

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Re: Ability to rename scripts and expressions

Post by SveinnIngi » 19 May 2016 17:13

+1 on the ability to rename scripts and expressions ;)

It's quite annoying to copy the whole code, paste it into a new script and delete the old one if you want to rename, or is there maybe another way?

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