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RQFlash
12-22-2005, 02:01 PM
I think I've found a bug in MX2004 (also happens in Flash 8), but I'm curious to see if anyone else has noticed this. The problem exists in the Find & Replace feature. If you perform a global F&R on the entire file, it seems to complete successfully. However, if you close the movie and re-open it and perform the search again, you will notice that it finds many of the ones it supposedly replaced before. The only replaces that actually took are ones where the replaced variable was displayed in the actions panel at the time the F&R was performed.

Attached is a good test case.
1) Search for "test_var" (you will find 3 instances of it).
2) Replace it with something else.
3) Without digging in to verify that it actually replaced them, save and close the file.
4) Re-open the file and perform the search again. You will see that now 2 of the 3 have reverted back to "test_var".

Anyone got any ideas as to what's going on here?

Billy T
12-22-2005, 02:15 PM
looks like your on to something there

I searched macromedia.com and there was nothing there which means

"yeah we know about it and are waiting patiently for it to fix itself"

RQFlash
12-22-2005, 02:26 PM
Since it was in MX2004 and is now also in version 8, I hope it doesn't mean "We didn't know about that"...where's the QC?!?!

Billy T
12-22-2005, 02:33 PM
one of the top 10 new features in flash 6 was support the html img tag in text boxes. Unfortunately it didnt work...and still doesnt as far as I am aware (havent tested in flash 8 I must admit).

All I'm saying is that they have a reputation (in my study) of ignoring really important bugs...

RQFlash
12-22-2005, 02:58 PM
Ahh, gotcha. I don't quite have the history with Macromedia, so I didn't know that about them. Hopefully they'll get around to addressing these issues sometime in the near future, but I won't hold my breath :rolleyes: