Renaming files used across multiple projects

[JÞB]

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@David_L wrote:

Thanks all, good tips.  I think I like Kyle's idea the best if I can automate it.  Editing lvproj as text files sounds dangerous.  Maybe I can create a tool that does this then sell it and make a million dollars kudos!

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Use read txt file and do a search and replace in LabVIEW 

Really, all the project file is is an xml file that project explorer uses to populate the views.  Now you could use LabVIEW's Project Explorer to create save and edit this xml file OR, you can just replace text.

Its only dangerous if you write a bug

[Jacobson-ni]

You could do this with scripting but I would guess that, unless this is a problem you run into somewhat often, it would probably be faster to just to do it manually. I love scripting but I usually spend more time making the tool than I save by using it.

[Gregory]

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@Jacobson-ni wrote:

You could do this with scripting but I would guess that, unless this is a problem you run into somewhat often, it would probably be faster to just to do it manually. I love scripting but I usually spend more time making the tool than I save by using it.

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But that completely neglects the sense of pride you feel when you get the scripting functions to do what you want 🙂

[David_L]

So just to follow up, there was an alternative solution that I thought of which kind of helped.  Since our project consists of one main project and multiple smaller dependency projects, I was able to temporarily add all code from all projects into the main project.  Then when I made the library name change, it changed it everywhere.  I just needed to do some clean up of the actual .lvproj files later, but mostly this worked out pretty well.

Overall, this change did cause some other weird bug which is still unresolved, but that's another story...