GML updates

Did you know that any time a new thing is added to GML, I have to re-create it from scratch for GMLive?

• Non-4-hex escape sequences like "\u65" and "\u000065" are now supported.
• Added support for GM2023’s Script.staticVar (note: doesn’t work on HTML5 because struct_get can’t read variables from static_get’s structs)
• Added support for $"" strings.
• Added support for {a, b} shorthand that’s in beta build.

Other additions

• 9-slice sprites are now supported.
• I have added support for animation curve reloading, but it currently doesn’t work due to two separate bugs related to updating contents of an existing curve.
  Check back after a couple GM updates.
• Added live_sprite_updated, live_path_updated, and live_animcurve_updated callbacks to make it easier to track other resource live-reloads.

Improvements

• Since extra optional arguments are being added to built-in functions every other month now, GMLive will no longer shout at you for providing too many arguments for a function call. This can be controlled using live_allow_trailing_args (a boolean global variable).
• All global scripts are now accessible from game start - without having to wait for “ready” message.

Fixes

• Fixed div sometimes performing non-integer division
• Fixed some issues with room reloading on specific runtime versions because json_parse would cap numbers to -2147483648 .. 2147483647 range (and colors were stored as unsigned integers in 0 … 4294967295 range)
• Fixed nested macros not working unless written inside the current code file.

Caveats

• It would appear that HTTP requests don’t work in LTS on HTML5 target, so the extension is not usable there.
• I had to rewrite most of the tokenizer code to make $"" work so it’s possible that I have added a few bugs in process of doing so.
• Now that I’m writing this I recall that I was going to also add support for macros inside extensions, but that’ll be in the next release now.

Hotfix (1.0.70)

• Fixed global functions that share the name with their container script resource not calling correctly in “live” code.
• Extension macros in non-GML files are now indexed.

Hotfix (1.0.71)

• Fixed multi-line comments working half of the time (as in, the code was reading two characters at a time, often missing the end of the comment.