Can procedures be renamed programmatically?
I don’t know of a way to directly rename a procedure with a program, but you could create a new procedure and give it the same text. Here is one way to do that:
local lvproctext,lvnewname,lvoldname
Gettext "Enter current procedure name: ",lvoldname
Gettext "Enter new procedure name: ",lvnewname
lvproctext=getproceduretext("",lvoldname)
makenewprocedure lvnewname
openprocedure lvnewname
setproceduretext lvproctext
That leave the original procedure; I have not found a way to delete the original procedure programatically.
You can use setprocedureoptions to change a procedure’s name. Here is a quote from the Help file for setprocedureoptions:
NAME
This option changes the name of the specified procedure. This example changes the name of the procedure Aloha to Hello .
setprocedureoptions "","Aloha","NAME","Hello"
The database must not already contain a procedure with the new name. If it does, the setprocedureoption statement will stop with an error.
Thanks guys.
My Safari search only finds whole words. That’s why I didn’t see it in the Help.
This will do it:
setprocedureoptions "",Name of your procedure in quotes,"delete",{}