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+*.h linguist-language=C++
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+.vs/
+*/#backups/*
+*/Configs/*/*
+
+*/datafiles/snippets.html
+
+*/Debug/
+*/Release/
+Debug/
+Release/
+export/*.gmz
+export/*.gmez
+export/*.yyz
+export/*.yymp
+export/*.yymps
+export/*.png
+export/*.zip
+
+*.sdf
+help.rtf

README.md

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+# Snippet API (working title)
+**Quick links:** [documentation](https://yal-gamemaker.github.io/gmk-snippets/)\
+**Supported versions:** GameMaker 8.1<sup>\[1]</sup>
+
+A collection of Cool Tricks for dynamically loading scripts in GameMaker 8.1¹.
+
+Based on my own findings and techniques of yesteryear.
+
+Features:
+- Can load and call "scripts" (snippets)  
+  Snippets can call each other,
+  support arguments, and generally act like scripts.
+- Can load objects from a GMEdit-like single-file format
+- A little syntactic sugar for snippet code
+- A few helper functions
+
+\[1] Technically any version that has `argument[]`/`argument_count` and `execute_string`/`object_event_add`,
+which is most likely versions between GM8.1 (incl.) and GM:HTML5 (incl.).
+
+## Technical
+The extension consists of a DLL and a bunch of GML scripts.
+
+The DLL does code preprocessing and other operations that were deemed too slow to do in GM8.1.
+
+The scripts use `object_event_add` + `event_perform_object` to store and call the final code without parsing penalties that would occur with `execute_string`.
+
+## Intended use cases
+<center>
+
+![shrug](./misc/shrug.png)\
+~~What use cases?~~
+
+</center>
+
+You could use it for dynamic content loading if you are making a game in GM8.1.
+
+Myself I wanted something that could run snippets of GM8.1 code without opening GM8.1,
+which is convenient timing given that GM8.1
+[doesn't open at the time of writing](https://forum.gamemaker.io/index.php?threads/gamemaker-8-1-unable-to-validate-license.113289/#post-675237).
+
+## snippet-tester
+This is an example project that has snippets setup and does
+```gml
+snippet_init();
+snippet_load_listfile("startup.gmk-snips");
+```
+on game start.
+
+If you compile a [GMEdit](https://github.com/YellowAfterlife/GMEdit/) version from git, you can open `.gmk-snips` files in it for a slightly-better code editing experience.
+
+## TODOs
+
+- Wildcard support in listfiles?\
+  (`folder/*.gml`)
+- Arguments for `snippet_execute_string`?\
+  (needs an "argument count waterfall")
+
+## Meta
+
+**Author:** [YellowAfterlife](https://github.com/YellowAfterlife)  
+**License:** MIT?