Searching ActionScript .as Files under Windows XP
If you try to search for text within an .as file in Windows XP, you might notice that you don't get any search results even when you know the text you are looking for is in the files you're searching. By default, Windows XP will search only the filenames of .as files and not their contents. In fact, it searches the full body text only for certain known file types. To get the full text search of .as files and other file types, you could use something like Google Desktop. Or you can remedy the deficiency in Windows XP using the suggestions in the Microsoft technote 'Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work'.

As per the Microsoft technote, I set this key in the Windows Registy and it worked:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.as\PersistentHandler\(Default) =
                             {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}

Note: To edit the Windows Registry, type RegEdit at the Start menu's Run prompt.

You need to log off and log back on for the change to take effect.

posted on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 at 16:09 | path: /multimedia | perma link