"Methods"/"Member Script" functionality improvement

[Salvakiya]

Was wondering how any of you would improve on this.

I have an object called oMethod. this object is a parent object for all objects I wish to use my Method system. I also have one script called method(name, *args);

here it what it looks like

Spoiler: Create Event of oMethod

///BEGIN NO TOUCH ZONE
//method arguments
mInput[0] = 0;
mReturn[0] = 0;

//method inits
method_assign = ev_user0;
method_init = true;
for (i=ev_user0; i<=ev_user15; i+=1){
    event_user(i-10);
    method_assign+=1;
};
for (i=ev_user15; i<=ev_user15+11; i+=1){
    event_perform(ev_alarm,i-(ev_user15));
    method_assign+=1;
};
method_init = false;
//END NO TOUCH ZONE

Spoiler: method script

///method(name, *args);
for (i=1; i<argument_count; i+=1){
    mInput[@i-1] = argument[i];
};

if argument[0]>ev_user15 {
    var ev = argument[0] - 26;
    event_perform(ev_alarm,ev)
}else{
    event_user(argument[0]-10)
}
mInput = undefined;
mInput[0]=0;
return mReturn;

after creating this object... any children just need to use something like this in their alarm/user events

Spoiler: alarm 0-11 or user_event 0-15

/// @description damage_life(amount)
// YOU SHOULD PLACE NAME IN DESCRIPTION
// AND ASSIGN THE NAME AS A NEW VARIABLE
// IN THE INIT BLOCK BELOW
/*
    use mInput array for arguments
    use mReturn array to return values
*/
if method_init == true then {
    //METHOD_NAME = method_assign;
    //the name of this variable... damage_life for example... should be in the
    //description at the top of the "method"
    damage_life = method_assign;
    exit;
};

///method code goes here

this allows you to do have "scripts" or "methods" inside your object themselves... the return values are saved in mReturn array. you unpack arguments into the script using mInput.

It is a bit messy as I just threw this all together. I was wondering in what ways you think it could be improved.

example setup of method in any user_event or alarm event

/// @description damage_life(amount)
if method_init == true then {
    damage_life = method_assign;
    exit;
};

//damage object
life-=10

//lets show how to return... why not
mReturn[0] = life;

example call of method

var arr = method(damage_life,10);
show_debug_message(arr[0]);

Also keep in mind when using this as it stands now... you cannot have any alarms or user events already inside an object. it is designed to run each event on object create to define the "method"

I ran this in GMS2 and it works fine... Should also work in GMS1