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[TGMG]

Implementing a parser just for writing the action code to gml would be overkill and be very unnecessary unless their is a reason to not pass the argument_relative in as an argument, which only requires changes 2 or 3 lines of code in the plugin compared to writing a parser or implementing code to keep track of the closing braces.

[IsmAvatar]

Personally I'm a fan of passing an argument, as long as it doesn't introduce problems with variable arguments or such. It makes sense that way, since relative is kind of an 'argument' to the DND action, and not intended as a global variable. It saves the trouble of keeping it global. And, the conversion process is intended to mostly reflect the DND look, so introducing brackets muddies it up, since that's really only supposed to be introduced by the Begin and End (resp. up and down triangle) actions.

[polygone]

I'm failing to see how it will work without overcomplicating things since when the gml action_* functions don't take the relative argument.

[IsmAvatar]

polygone: Function overloading is possible in C++ (the language ENIGMA is written in).

action_single_argument(var arg1)
action_single_argument(var arg1, bool argument_relative)

Or, sometimes this is written:
action_single_argument(var arg1, bool argument_relative = false)
To indicate a default value if none is provided.

[polygone]

Oh using a default parameter is fine then?

Code (C++) Select Expand

inline void action_move_to(double x, double y, bool argument_relative = false)
{
  enigma::object_planar* const inst = ((enigma::object_planar*)enigma::instance_event_iterator->inst);
  if (argument_relative)
  {
    inst->x += x;
    inst->y += y;
  }
  else
  {
    inst->x = x;
    inst->y = y;
  }
}
You won't need argument_relative as a global variable then. Why wasn't this just used to start with?

[IsmAvatar]

I come from a C background, where functions cannot be overloaded. The action_* functions included in GM do not have these arguments.

[Josh @ Dreamland]

You can use that for now. Until TGMG commits his changes, which include an argument_relative. See the discussion in this thread.