Yikes! Where is the search and replace?

[joyce]

EA doesn't appear to support searching for attributes or method names and seems to have no search and replace facility at all.

Does anyone know of a third party solution before I write one?

(We are using EA mainly for class diagrams and we're going about renaming some classes.  We're having to go all over the place to rename manually to match)

[CJ]

G'day,

I've actually never run into that need yet.  Kind of surprised and pretty lucky there, I guess.

Although it doesn't provide a replace, you can search the project tree from the "Search Tree" menu item in the context menu.

The project's EAP file is just an access database, so you could probably use access to perform seach and replace (I don't use Access, so I can't help you beyond that).

Hope that helps out until somebody comes up with something better.

[joyce]

Thanks for the help, I've checked out the built in search, it's drastically limited and won't search on methods or attributes so for classes it's basically useless.

We've written a search and replace using Automation which works well.

Seems kinda like a fundamental feature so I requested it.

Cheers!

[forbesjr]

Hi , I'm a bit late in my response but you could always export to XML, S&R and then import again.

JF