Mark,
The least hassle is to create a component as others have said.
However, there is another way :-
1. Convert dfms to text
2. Do a global search and replace for name and properties on all
pas and tst files.
I have tools for doing both, if you require them.
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From: Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Forest Production Systems Ltd
Subject: [DUG]: Globally replacing a component
> Hello
> This is a disaster recovery question!
>
> My production machine has died. My backup covered my project
> files OK but (as Murphy would have it) there is a one-off
> component (TNumericEdit) that was provided to me by a contract
> programmer (and of which there are maybe 50 instances of in the
> project), which escaped my backup.
>
> When I try to load the project on my second machine and open the
> MainUnit I get a message saying that the class TNumericEdit is
> not found and that if I continue the the components are likely to
> be deleted from the project.
>
> Assuming that I cannot track down another copy of this component,
> I would like to replace it globally with.one from the DSP. I
> anticipate that I will just then have to merely recode the
> appropriate events of the new components.
>
> If so I would appreciate if someone could give me some (newbie
> level) instructions on how to go about replacing each instance of
> the TNumericEdit and keeping the original component events code
> intact. Is this possible?
>
> TIA
>
> Mark
>
Rohit
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