Feedback Small Feature Request

[gloomytoad]

Hello,

I have been doing some pretty complex stuff in GameMaker recently and one thing that would really help is having script local macros. For instance in networking my scripts receive an array for an argument. My scripts are specific to each different packet identifier, and the data in the provided array will be different every time.

So instead of having (trivial example)

_receivedData[0];
_receivedData[1];

I could instead do.

#lmacro X 0
#lmacro Y 1

_receivedData[X];
_receivedData[Y];

And this would not auto populate in the auto complete from other scripts, as well as not being accessible. Basically on compile an "lmacro" would only work in that script that it was defined in. This would help keep things much cleaner for a lot of stuff I do.

 

[FrostyCat]

Local variables are the closest thing to what you're looking for. They also show up on AutoComplete in the same piece of code only.

var X = 0,
    Y = 1;
show_debug_message(_receivedData[X]);
show_debug_message(_receivedData[Y]);

 

[gloomytoad]

Local variables are the closest thing to what you're looking for. They also show up on AutoComplete in the same piece of code only.

var X = 0,
    Y = 1;
show_debug_message(_receivedData[X]);
show_debug_message(_receivedData[Y]);

I know, was just thinking local macros would avoid the computational hit. (Thought I know it is very minor). Just had a lot of instances where they would be useful lately!