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Azurezero6 years ago

the gms1 version has a mistake in it

instance_destroy() has to be called as a function with no arguments

so id change it to this

if(myTextbox != noone){
    with myTextbox{
        instance_destroy()};
        myTextbox = noone;

friendlycosmonaut6 years ago (1 edit)

Actually this isn't a mistake; the function has an optional argument. Its default is just to destroy the calling instance, but you can destroy a specific instance other than the calling one via the optional argument. This is according to the GameMaker documentation on the function.

As far as I know this has never caused me any problems -- have you encountered some errors?

Azurezero6 years ago

it flagged as an error the second i opened it and it wouldnt run until i removed it

wrong number of arguments

friendlycosmonaut6 years ago

Oh, how weird!

Azurezero6 years ago

not weird to me, in all the versions of game maker i had all of them had instance_destroy() with an error thrown if you put something in it

Rafael Rossi6 years ago

if the code is instance_destroy(a), doesn't a :

with(a) instance_destroy();

be enough to make things right ??

Azurezero6 years ago

thats what i changed it to, i was just letting the maker know in case someone wanting to use this wasnt good enough with gml to know that

friendlycosmonaut6 years ago

Cheers! I've had another commenter run into the same issue, so I'll go ahead and change the code for the new version. (I can't believe I've never run into the problem myself!)

Thanks for letting me know & discussing it with me :)

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