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The search
and replace events dialog helps you complete complex
search & replace operations on the events on the
sprite layer. It's especially useful when
"balancing" a level. For example, if you'd like
the big green turtles only to appear on the hard level,
or to make all auto-fire pickups illuminate their
surroundings.
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Search
criteria
These items control what kind of search will be
performed. By default, all of the items specify
an intermediate state (i.e. they do not search
for anything). If you would like to search for
one or more events, enable the event specific
check-box and select one or more events from the
list (tip: you can select more items from the
list by holding down the CTRL key as you click on
the events you want to search for). If you change
the Illuminate Surroundings check-box so
that it is no longer in an intermediate state,
the search operation will also be selective
depending on the Illuminate Surroundings flag
of an event. If you would like to search for
events, based on their difficulty level, change
the Difficulty drop-box from "Don't
care" to one of the difficulty levels.
These search criteria allow you to search for
events in a very versatile manner. The search
criteria select which events will be changed with
the event replacement.
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Event
replacement
The event replacement is applied to all events
that are specified in the search criteria.
You do not have to specify the same dependencies
as for the search criteria. You can, for
example, search for event Red Spring and
Auto Fire who have their Illuminate
Surroundings flag turned on and only appear
on the Hard difficulty level (a very
specific search) and replace them with a
difficulty of Easy. In this case, the
events and their Illuminate Surroundings flag
is left unchanged.
You can also do this the other way around. You
can, for example, search for any event who has
its Illuminate Surroundings flag turned
on and replace them with the Auto Fire
event for difficulty level Easy.
You are entirely free to choose any combination
of search criteria and event
replacement.
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Profile name
You can store frequently used search and replace
operations in a profile. By clicking on the
drop-down part of this box, you can see a list of
available profiles. By clicking on the text part
of this box, you can set the name of the profile
if you wish to save your own profiles.
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Save profile
Press this button to save your profile. To save
your profile, first set the search criteria
and event replacement to the desired
values, click on the profile name box
and type a name for your profile, then press the save
button.
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Delete
profile
Press this
button to delete the current profile.
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Help button
Press this button to display the help you are
reading now.
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Cancel button
Press this button to return to the editor.
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Apply button
Press this button apply the search and replace
operation you have composed using the search
criteria and event replacement.
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