Instance Toolkit

Description

The instance toolkit contains a set of scripts to work with hierarchies of instances in the easiest and cleanest way possible. You can use the scripts and object provided to build your own GUI system, to easily save and load instances with all required variables or simply to serialize an instance using JSON and send and receive it over a network.

Features

• Easily add, remove and move child instances and hierarchies
• Inherit properties defined in parent objects
• Load and save instance hierarchies, including inherited properties of all parent objects
• JSON support, allowing for serialization of instances
• Helper scripts for loading and saving GM's built-in instance variables
• Debug script for displaying an instance tree, including instance properties
• Clean, well-commented code
• Extensive documentation, including examples of use: simple, loading/saving & JSON, advanced

Scripts usage

// Create and destroy instances
with(instance) itk_instance_create(x,y,obj_object);    // automatically assigns to calling instance
with(instance) instance_destroy();                     // destroy full instance tree

// JSON encode/decode
var json = itk_json_encode(instance);
var instance = itk_json_decode(json);

// Getting/setting properties using custom events
itk_props[?"x"] = x;    // Get an instance's properties => itk_get_event
itk_props[?"y"] = y;

x = itk_props[?"x"];    // Set an instance's properties => itk_set_event
y = itk_props[?"y"];

// Executing scripts
with(instance) {
    itk_script_execute(script_name,argument0,argument1[,...]);
}

Known bugs

none

Updates/new feature additions

Will be added for free on request.

Links

Docs

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