global replace for actionscript

[British_Nanny]

does anyone know a quick and painless way of changing a text string (such as a variable name) throughout all the actionscript in an fla file, including the actioscript held within every movie clip. The replace function in the flash's native actionscript editor only seems to check the current frame.

thanks
BN

[enpstudios]

Are you using MX ?

[British_Nanny]

so i'm still using flash 5. Does MX do it at the press of a button then??

[enpstudios]

Yes !! Actually 2 buttons.

Find and then replace

[senocular]

both 5 and mx have the find and replace function. They can find, and or replace a single or all occurances within a single script, but not ALL the scripts in your movie. Director, for example, has this option. Flash does not.

If youre fairly well organized, with the help of the movie explorer (which can filter out scripts not containing whatever text it is you are looking for/replacing), going through each and using replace all shouldnt take too much time.

[British_Nanny]

i'd never got into the movie explorer before. thanks, that'll save me a lot of time