GMS Timers

Description

GMS Timers: Better Alarms, Intervals and Cooldowns!

Features:

• More readable alarms
• Repeated alarms (intervals)
• Global alarms (not tied to an instance)
• PAUSABLE ALARMS!
• Built-in cooldowns

Replace and extend Game Maker's built-in alarm system for greater readability, streamlined code and more possibilities!

Expands the basic 'alarm' concept to 'Timers', with three different possibilities:

• Alarm: Just like GM's alarms, runs code after an interval)
• Interval: Repeatedly runs code after an interval)
• Cooldown: Restores a variable to true/false after an interval to indicate cooldown is over.

Usage Examples:

setAlarm(60, doThing)           
setInterval(60, doThingRepeatedly)
canDoThing = true

if (canDoThing) {
    doThing()
    setCooldown("canDoThing", 60, true) //Sets canDoThing to false, restores it to true in 60 frames
}

Includes scripts to pause and resume alarms, intervals and cooldowns! If you want to pause all your timers, just use pauseTimers(). Great for pausing/unpausing your game!

Updates

• Restructured the way global/local Timers are handled
• Fixed bugs
• Added logging variables to TimerManager (verbose timer setting, verbose timer clearing)
• Added more utility scripts (alarmExists, intervalExists, ...)
• Changed callback parameter to raw script to string because of the way GM handles script indices for extensions
• Fixed scope in backend scripts (they now all run in with(TimerManager))
• Bug fix: If an alarm's callback re-set the alarm, it would be cleared anyway.
• Bug fix: Callbacks deleting their own timer crashed the game.

Docs https://pastebin.com/4XmWVBhY

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