This meant that I was going to have to crawl through each filename character by character and look for image dimensions. (Shame on me.) A lot of filenames had other parts or character strings that were going to cause problems, for example: IMG5243.1024x768_cropped.png, IMG2745.edited_1280x1024.png, IMG6354.new_800圆00_small.png, etc. Here is where I quickly ran into a problem - I hadn't standardized my file naming syntax.
Visual studio mass rename update#
This is where Front3's "Link Fix Up" functionality would come in handy trying to crawl every webpage in my website to update the thousands of image links would have been incredibly painful, whereas Front3 would take care of keeping the image links up-to-date for free, provided that I could come up with a way to automate the renaming process. (Too many characters.) With that in mind, I decided that I would rename all of those images back to simpler names like IMG5243.png, IMG2745.png, IMG6354.png, etc. Some part of the file name obviously contained the image dimensions, which was useful at the time that I created the website, but that information was no longer necessary, and the filenames made the Obsessive Compulsive side of my behavior start to act up. I created a mixed-media website some years ago where I had thousands of images that were named like, , IMG6354.800圆00.png, etc. With all of that being said, here's a scenario where using Front3's "Link Fix Up" functionality with VBA really paid off, and I thought that it would make a great blog (in case anyone else runs into a similar issue and still has a copy of Front3 lying around somewhere.) Problem Description and Solution Other applications may have similar features, but when you combine that feature with Front3's built-in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) functionality, you have a really powerful combination that can quickly seem indispensable. Needless to say, this feature was often indispensable when I was working with extremely large websites. In other words, if you had a file that was named "foo.html," you could rename it to "bar.html" and Front3 would update every hyperlink in every file in your entire website which pointed to that file. It may be a dinosaur, but there are some things that it does really well, and periodically I simply need to use it.Īn often-mocked and yet critically essential feature that Front3 provided was affectionately called "Link Fix Up," which was a feature that would replicate file renames across your entire website. Despite the plethora of other tools and editors that I use to create websites, there are times when I simply have to dust off my copy of (gasp!) Microsoft Front3.
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