ds_list

Hello people, I have a really strange problem here... I create a ds_lists with in which I store data about session (I create a map and add details) and in this map I create a section named "playerList" in which I call var List = ds_list_create(), so the pointer to that section should be a...

Hello everyone! I am currently working on a networking engine, which I've been pretty successful, until the recent update I've made. I am trying to store a map inside global.sessionList, which is stored and later found by any of the search scripts I've made. But when I've created another list...

Hello, For someone who has adhd, and can't read long texts (like the manual), what's the difference in perks between ds_lists, ds_maps, ds_grids, and arrays? When would you use one over the other? Thanks in advance <3

Hello I'm trying to save instance information to ds_list, and everything works well, but some problems with variables. I want to add variable only if exists and trying something like this: if !is_undefined(inst.hp) ds_list_add(list, inst.hp); I'm sure I'm wrong, but how to...

Hi Everyone, I'm currently in the midst of constructing an algorithm on how to go about creating an inventory system for my RPG. In my game, each character in the party (total 7) has their own inventory in which they can hold a total of fifteen items. So for example, if you want to use a...

Hi guys, I'm trying to make a way to detect if a ds_map's value is actually a ds_list or ds_map as I use JSON a lot im just trying to work out a way to simply detect it. I thought ds_exists would work but it returned true if the value was a map or not :/ Hopefully this was able to describe...

// Create chunk grid global.chunk_grid = ds_grid_create(global.grid_width, global.grid_height); ds_grid_clear(global.chunk_grid, noone); // Create loader grid global.loader_list = ds_list_create(); ds_list_clear(global.loader_list); // Destroy ds_grid and ds_list...

I have ran into a problem and I can't seem to figure out why nothing displays right. I have two objects, a client and a server and both transfer to a room as a waiting lobby. Upon connection I immediately send the players name to the server, the server stores that in a ds_list, then the server...

Hi guys Please can a more experienced GMLer roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with my 2 scripts for saving and loading a 1D array into an already open ini? They are very simple - Save loops through a 1D array and populates a temp ds_list before writing as a string with...

Hi! I'm having a lot of problems with ds_lists. Explaining my project and stuff would take ages, so I'm cutting right to the problem. In a for-loop I'm searching for given values in a ds_list (the first line in this code). The next two show_message lines tell me that in position 0 in this...

Hi there! I was wondering if it is possible to make a ds_list and populate it on room start with indexes of different objects (from that room). For instance, in a room are multiple instances of three objects (obj_one, obj_two, obj_three). What I am asking : is there a way just to add those...