by Daniel Lubarov

Welcome to GM2Color!

GML2Color is a free utility which converts GML code from plain text into a choice of HTML, BBcode, or Wikidot markup. The tool originally took around four days to create, but since that time it's undergone a number of improvements. I have to say, the most exciting part of the process was categorizing the 1,812 syntax constructs which comprise the language. I hope you enjoy using this site as much as I enjoyed building it!

I've made the code lists publicly available for download (see the left navigation bar) in case anyone wishes to take on a similar project without having to organize all of the GML constructs. The PHP source code is also up for download.

Let me see?! I want to see!!

Below is an example of code generated using GML2Color.

var ii;

room_caption = "Prime Number Gen (" + string(fps) + " FPS)";

// A cool color-shifting button
for (ii = 0; ii < btn_count; ii += 1)
  btn_hue[ii] += random(100/(max(fps,30)+1));

/*
Blah blah current_time blah blah
Blah ds_list_add(id,val) blah // blah
*/

if running {
  start_timestamp = current_time;
  for (ii = 0; ii < freq; ii += 1) {
    if is_prime(num_current) {
      ds_list_add(lst_primes,num_current);
      prime_count += 1;
    }
    num_current += 2;
    // Determine time used in calculating last prime
    if ii == freq - 2 then prev_timestamp = current_time;
    if ii == freq - 1 then last_time = current_time - prev_timestamp;
  }
  total_time += current_time - start_timestamp;
}

Ew, it's a bug! I found a bug! Ewww!

I am human; I make mistakes from time to time. If you find any bugs, please let me know.

~Dannyboy~: Pretty good, any chance of making on that uses a CSS style sheet?
Daniel: Hm, are you embedding the code in a webpage? If so, what font is in use? Please give more detail and I'll look into it.
Dainel: @Dannyboy, it could be done, but I think I'm already teasing the threshold of feature creep a bit... I'm afraid it may make the website less easy to use, particularly for users who aren't familiar with HTML/CSS.
gamer freak: Hello?
Daniel: Hi =)
Alexander_Q: Hey Daniel. Didn't bold the "{" and "}". Cheers
a','b','c','d') LIMIT (0: just testing ";..;"
T-Dub: You should create an smf mod for this
gamemoon: works fine ^^
Mcoot: It came up with a whole bunch of color = "hexidecimal color index", font settings and randomly placed strings from my input...
hi: everyone
e: e
something4everyone: Message...
James Barnaby: Even though this would be outside the realms of GM, it'd be nice if we could add some of our own keywords to this aswell. Overall though, this is an amazingly awesome tool.
James: Pretty cool.