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[Ablach Blackrat]

I've finally gotten around to redoing the Drag and Drop to GML tutorial completely for Version 7. This tutorial will show you the Drag and Drop icons and their related GML coding.

Also included in this file is a complete listing of the Action Functions that Game Maker uses. These are the direct coding of the Drag and Drop Icons and, in some cases, may be easier to use then the related code. I should stress though that Action functions are entirely unsupported in Game Maker, both in the Game Maker Manual and in the Coding Window of the Object Properties dialogue. You can still use them, but they will not appear below. Action Functions should not really be used by beginners; they should learn the actual code. Once you have a grasp of GML, Action Functions will be helpful.

Please download all version in one file from the following link....

http://www.mediafire...a1um5u6fkc21cn8

Edited by Ablach Blackrat, 14 August 2011 - 12:27 AM.

[computerwis]

Is there going to be an html version later on?

[Ablach Blackrat]

Is there going to be an html version later on?

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The HTML version for both Ver 7 and Ver 6 have been put up. Sorry, I forgot about those.

[Nijg]

Is the version 7 one at all different than the version 6 one?

[Ablach Blackrat]

Is the version 7 one at all different than the version 6 one?

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The icon names have been changed to match Ver 7, some code has been cleaned up and improved thanks to several members, as well as the inclusion of the Action Codes.

[Daniel-Dane]

I believe miscolouring is a low priority for you.

[Ablach Blackrat]

I believe miscolouring is a low priority for you.

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I though you were pointing out the glaring spelling error. I'll fix the colouring as well.

[Daniel-Dane]

There was a spelling error as well? Well, if that was the case I would have made a nice, thin, red box around it.

[xtreme0ninja]

spelling error? you mean where it says

they're are

which basicly means they are are? if thats not what ur talking about, im smart. if it is, im still smart.

Xtreme0

[Nijg]

I don't know if this is in the gm7 one too, but I have discovered in the gm6 one, for the 'When an object is at a position,' it is not only position_meeting, position_meeting is only if you have an actual coordinates. It would be place_meeting is you put into the dnd option: OBJ.x, OBJ.y. So it is position_meeting and place_meeting.

[shane121]

what a great tutorial!!!
very helpful
two thumbs up


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[Kobb]

Thanks! I still find myself using the d@d icons alot, so this will help!

[melon]

Those action codes are very interesting. I assume that when you make something using D&D, what actually happens when GM compiles the exe is turns each of them into their own codes and makes a script out of each object. Of course, I probably should have guessed it did that anyway, but I imagine that it would compile these codes, and so technically it would be faster in some cases to use D&D.

Am I right? I always wondered if GM compiled code that you write or if it's interpretted. I believe it's an odd mixture of both.

[jabelar]

EDIT: Ignore my post. I just "discovered" that the d&d actions are really used inside a a with() statement, because they all seem to take "self", "other" or object as a parameter.

And I also see that you indeed mentioned that at the front of the document.

Edited by jabelar, 01 November 2007 - 11:45 PM.

[Dark_Mage]

Any chance you could make it in a word document?

[a2h]

Good on you for the update, I now use one less D&D (even though I mostly use code xD)

action_bounce(true,0);

And there's not much GML I have to learn left, just motion_set and all that... =P

Great tutorial, used it as a reference ever since it was just a simple pdf.

Edited by anger2headshot, 13 November 2007 - 09:12 AM.

[Ablach Blackrat]

Any chance you could make it in a word document?

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Any reason you need it as a Word document? Anything in the PDF or HTML can be copied.

[Meowgoocat]

Cool, it's fixed now.

Edited by Meowgoocat, 07 December 2007 - 11:21 PM.

[K3fka]

All the links are broken

[tristiano77]

by making a script called action_game_end() and having the contents be show_message("wo0t"); you see that when you add a game end action it must run the action_game_end() function, but if you change that script to game_end the d&d action still works therefore the function action_game_end is compiled separately from game_end