[stable] Compatibility tweaks and fixes

2024.6 / 2024.8

This release is a continued effort to stop GM IDE from re-formatting files that GMEdit touches, sometimes losing recent changes to them in process.

Improvements

• You can now use /// @is text to add a description to a variable without giving it a type.
• Added a params_of “type”.
  It turns type parameters into rest-arguments’ types and can be used for making functions like script_execute type-checked.
• Added support for prefix_* and /Folder/* in “library resources”.
• Added a “Look in library resources” checkbox to Global Search.
• Audio groups are now highlighted and appear in auto-completion

Breaking changes

• Gamepad axes are now a separate type (gamepad_axis instead of gamepad_button) for consistency with Feather types.

Fixes

• Arbitrary expressions are now allowed in Variable Definitions (#222).
• Fixed sprite viewer causing editor to overflow when using multiple rows of tabs.
• /// @param [name=0] no longer shows as [name=0:undefined]
• A console warning is no longer emitted for JSDoc comments with [optional arguments].