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Text replacement in Text Frames

Author:	TX Text Control Support Department
Language:	Visual Basic
Version:	1.0
Released:	August 19, 2005
Last modified:	January 11, 2008
Requirements:	TX Text Control ActiveX with Visual Basic
Download code:	tx_sample_frame_replace.zip [3.96 KB, ZIP]

One of the main advantages of text frames is the ability to handle each one of them separately. Therefore, it is possible to search for a string in a specific text frame only.

To search for all instances of a string in the main text and all inserted text frames, you just have to loop through all text frames. The following code snippet illustates how to loop through all text frames, using the ObjectNext method:

Do
	tfID = tx.ObjectNext(i, &H20)
 
	If tfID = 0 Then
		Exit Do
	Else
		tx.TextFrameSelect (tfID)
		count = count + findReplaceText(text, replaceWith)
		tx.TextFrameSelect -1
	End If
 
	i = i + 1
Loop

The findReplaceNext function simply uses the Find method to replace all instances of the string in the document. In the sample, our function additionally returns the number of replaced instances.

At least a trial version of TX Text Control ActiveX 12.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 is required to start the sample application.

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