Declaring variables causes a warning when macro is used.

[softwareantics]

Current Behavior

Declaring a variable causes a warning to be shown if a macro is defined in place of self. This only occurs for constructors and events (ie, the create event). Note also that an error is shown for structs.

Expected Behavior

Regardless of the macro, this really shouldn't produce a warning.

Failure Information (for bugs)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Declare a macro to use in place of self

#macro this self

2. Create a new script or object, copy and paste the following:

function test_struct() constructor
{
    this.test = "";
}

3. Note the warning that is displayed.

Context

• Operating System: Windows 10 Home
• Hardware: Intel i7-10710U @ 1.1GHz, 32GB RAM
• Toolchain: GMS Runtime 2023.200.0.298, GMEdit Dec 24, 2022

[softwareantics]

I don't know if there is a temporary solution to this that will still allow me to keep my styling. Is there a comment or something I can use to disable the warnings in a particular file? Much like feather can be disabled. If not, perhaps I should remove my macro.

[YellowAfterlife]

Indexer (which fills out information for types) isn't aware of macros and is pretty quick & stupid in general.

Changing this requires making the indexer multi-pass (store all code, process all macros, then run through the code again, now while expanding macros), which is a huge amount of work and probably won't happen too soon.

You might hardcode a workaround by modifying this line in app.js

if(c == 102 && dp >= 3 && q.source.substr((dp - 3),4) == "self" && (dp == 3 || !tools_CharCode.isIdent1_ni(q.source.charCodeAt(dp - 4)))) {
				isDotSelf = true;
			}

to be

if(c == 102 && dp >= 3 && (q.source.substr((dp - 3),4) == "self" || q.source.substr((dp - 3),4) == "this") && (dp == 3 || !tools_CharCode.isIdent1_ni(q.source.charCodeAt(dp - 4)))) {
				isDotSelf = true;
			}

[softwareantics]

Okay, if you see this as too much effort for something that likely wouldn't be an issue for most people I don't mind closing :)