Search and Replace Events

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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.

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.

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.

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.

| 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.
| Delete profile Press this button to delete the current profile.
| Help button Press this button to display the help you are reading now.
| Cancel button Press this button to return to the editor.
| Apply button Press this button apply the search and replace operation you have composed using the search criteria and event replacement.