Increasing a Draw Event?

[Hudsonius]

So under a draw event I'm saying:

<thescript>(view_xview[0]+33, view_yview[0]+16, text, width, 0);

This draws my script. However, the 0 after width I want to steadily increase. (this changes the script and yeah) However, I cannot find a way to set it to increase. I tried many different ways including an alarm slowly increases a variable and changing the code above from 0 to 0 + the variable, but that wouldn't work. If anyone has an idea or something it would be great.

 

[Tthecreator]

Alright, what you need is some sort of counter.
You need to define how fast your counter should be.
Let's say you want you counter to go from 0 to 1 in 1 second.
If your game runs at 30 steps per second (or just frame per second (fps)) the counter needs to increase by 1/30th every step.
Now your game runs at 60fps so the counter needs to increment by 1/60th every step.
Continuing with this example, we now want the counter to go from 0 to 1 in 2 seconds and thus we need to increase if by 1/30th every step again. (we're still at 60fps)
Now instead of going from 0 to 1 we want to go to 100 so we need to increase our value by 1/3rd every step.
Does this make sense?
What you should get from this is the following formula:

valuePerSecond=value/time;//where the time is in seconds.
counter+=valuePerSecond*(1/game_speed);//where the game speed is your fps, game_speed is a build in game maker variable.

I hope this is useful to you.

 

[Hudsonius]

Alright, what you need is some sort of counter.
You need to define how fast your counter should be.
Let's say you want you counter to go from 0 to 1 in 1 second.
If your game runs at 30 steps per second (or just frame per second (fps)) the counter needs to increase by 1/30th every step.
Now your game runs at 60fps so the counter needs to increment by 1/60th every step.
Continuing with this example, we now want the counter to go from 0 to 1 in 2 seconds and thus we need to increase if by 1/30th every step again. (we're still at 60fps)
Now instead of going from 0 to 1 we want to go to 100 so we need to increase our value by 1/3rd every step.
Does this make sense?
What you should get from this is the following formula:

valuePerSecond=value/time;//where the time is in seconds.
counter+=valuePerSecond*(1/game_speed);//where the game speed is your fps, game_speed is a build in game maker variable.

I hope this is useful to you.

Thanks!!!
This seems to be working.