Improve Search and Replace / Option to Filter Full Names

When you ask to search and replace a text, theres no way to ask to only do it on single full texts and not on a part of a text.

What i mean is…

I had both the text “Rock” and “RockWall” on my code and i wanted to change it all to “RockWall”, so i did a search and replace in hopes it had been changed, but it wasent.

It still grabbed the “Rock” from “RockWall” and dupped it, making it “RockWallWall”.

These walls are just for the prototype, when i decided to invest more time into the edit system and decide to add sides to the wall, like “RockWallLeft” or “RockWallRight”, i wont be able to use this really cool feature that saves me hours of work and instead ill have to manually change every text at least once, then i can take advantage of its quirk and change only the “Left” for “Right” and such.

I used this feature quite a lot when making inventories or anything related with items that use the same events but need their own names on there, i love this thing so much, this has saved me quite literally days of work since i started working in GDevelop, would be really nice to see it getting more love, i for one would seriously appreciate it.

Btw to anyone else annoyed by this, there is a work around when dealing with similar names… why didnt i use it? Because my brain is shot from being sick, im also slow like that some times and forgot lol :smiley:

When you have a similar name you want to change, just change it to something else first that wont trip the search.

In this case, i should of changed “RockWall” to “Rock” first, that way it would pick the entire word first and then change “Rock” for “RockWall”.

But that dosent change my request, iv been meaning to put this up for a while, would be nice to just have the filter option without extra steps… would of saved my lagging brain some times :stuck_out_tongue:

Too late, i saw what you wrote :stuck_out_tongue:

HOW DARE YOU NOT READ EVERY WORD I TYPED!

SHAAAAAAAAAAAMMMEEEEE!!! :smiley:

hahaha :smiley: I do that some times too :stuck_out_tongue:
Thanks just the same bud! <3

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As far as I know GDevelop replaces those things automatically when you rename your object.

my bad :sweat_smile:

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