Lightweight Data Structures

Description

Overview

Lightweight Data Structures is a complete struct-based, garbage-collected replacement for GMS 2's built-in data structures.

Features

• Complete coverage: Stack, Queue, List, Map, Grid, Priority Queue (Heap)
• No need for manual cleanup (no more ds_*_destroy())
• Nest without explicit type marking (no more ds_map_add_list() or ds_list_mark_as_map(), for example)
• Load and save in one line, with optional encryption
• Iterators for looping through lists, maps and grids
• Sort lists and grids by custom criteria

Documentation

See the Wiki section on the official GitHub repository.

Examples

Simple List Example:

var list = new List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10);
list.shuffle();
show_message("Your draws are: " + string(list.get(0)) + "," + string(list.get(1)) + "," + string(list.get(2)));

Simple Nested Map Example:

var characters = new List(
    new Map("name", "Alice", "hp", 4),
    new Map("name", "Bob", "hp", 5),
    new Map("name", "Caitlyn", "hp", 6)
);
lds_save_encrypted(characters, working_directory + "characters.dat", "secretChars");

var loadedCharacters = lds_load_encrypted(working_directory + "characters.dat", "secretChars");
show_message(
    "Stats:" +
    "\n- Alice: " + string(loadedCharacters.get(0).get("hp")) +
    "\n- Bob: " + string(loadedCharacters.get(1).get("hp")) +
    "\n- Caitlyn: " + string(loadedCharacters.get(2).get("hp"))
);

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