GMEdit-Constructor

As the title suggests, Constructor is a plugin for YellowAfterlife's GMEdit, which allows you to compile from the editor just as you can in the GameMaker IDE.

For projects targetting new(ish) versions of GameMaker, Constructor is generally a more capable and stable option to the older builder, as it uses the compilation toolchain instead of invoking the asset compiler directly. If you are working on a codebase that must remain on a legacy (<2.3) version of GameMaker, use builder instead.

Constructor can compile for the current build target (your OS), web targets (HTML5 and WASM), and can switch between build configs.

Features

• Easily run, package releases, or clean projects from GMEdit!
  • Execute multiple builds side-by-side in managed separate directories (disable reusing tabs for this.)
  • Build and Runtime error parsing (view them nice and neat rather than scrolling the log!)
  • Close a build tab to stop it (or use the hotkey.)
• Switch between VM or YYC. (Building for other systems is planned, eventually.)
• Switch build configurations (#macro Config:SOMETHING ...) via the Control Panel, or by right-clicking a config in the project sidebar.
• Support for Beta, Monthly, and LTS runtimes, with a per-project switch, and warnings for project-incompatible selections.
• Support for HTML5 and GX.Games targets. Note that the "Package" option for both of these is currently not working YYG have not documented its usage for these targets, and the IDE uses a proprietary extra-undocumented method.
• Automatic update-checking. (This calls the GitHub API to check the latest release and can be toggled off.)
• Readable, central error messages - the Control Panel shows any configuration issues, or internal errors. All errors display context, and most try to provide tips to resolve the issue where possible.

Installation

Installation is the same here as any other GMEdit plugin - clone it into your plugins folder (see below), or download the .zip from Releases, and extract the contained folder into plugins.

Windows

git clone https://github.com/thennothinghappened/GMEdit-Constructor %appdata%\AceGM\GMEdit\plugins\GMEdit-Constructor

MacOS

git clone https://github.com/thennothinghappened/GMEdit-Constructor "~/Library/Application Support/AceGM/GMEdit/plugins/GMEdit-Constructor"

Linux

git clone https://github.com/thennothinghappened/GMEdit-Constructor "~/.config/AceGM/GMEdit/plugins/GMEdit-Constructor"

See GMEdit#Installing plugins for more details!

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Key
View the Control Panel	Ctrl+`
Run the current project	F5
Clean the current project's files	Ctrl+F7
Stop the current compile job	F6
Package the current project	Ctrl+F5

The above are the defaults provided. You can rebind these through GMEdit's Edit Keyboard Shortcuts option in Preferences!

Planned features include:

• Support for other targets:
  • Android
  • Remote compilation for other platforms using devices.json (compile on another machine via ssh as you can in the IDE)
• Option for docked console as opposed to full-window

Issues

If you have any issues with Constructor, feel free to either ask on Discord (below), or make a post on the GitHub Issues page. I'll try to get back to you when I can, but no guarantees.

Feature requests

If there's anything else you'd like out of Constructor that isn't mentioned here, the same applies as above with issues - make a feature request by opening an issue on GitHub!

I hope Constructor is a useful tool - though please note that I can only test on the machines I have available to me, so there's gonna be edge cases.

Finally, I also have a thread for this project on the GameMaker Kitchen Discord server, for quick feedback!

Thanks, and have fun :)