Pre-caching and setting autotype in the same frame causes timers to never be incremented

[DragoniteSpam]

Here's a fun problem that I've tracked down the cause of, but don't know what a solution would be.

I like to pre-cache my scribbles when possible, to ensure that everything I pass to scribble_draw is a scribble array because that makes things easier when dealing with autotype.

var _stext = scribble_pre_cache_ui("the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy game dev");

All that script really does is set and unset the cache group, it's not that interesting.

scribble_draw_set_cache_group(ScribbleCacheGroups.UI, false, true);
scribble_draw_set_wrap(-1, width);
var scribble = scribble_draw(0, 0, text);
scribble_draw_set_cache_group(ScribbleCacheGroups.UI, true, true);
return scribble;

Anyway, I like to do this often, especially in menus and stuff.

var _stext = scribble_pre_cache_ui("the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy game dev");
if (scribble_text == undefined) {
    scribble_text = _stext;
    scribble_autotype_fade_in(scribble_text, ...);
}
scribble_draw(a, b, scribble_text);

This used to be fine, but at some point it stopped working. I'm not sure when exactly that happened, since I only noticed last night after revisiting some old code. Every time scribble_draw is called - regardless of whether the scribble is actually drawn, or anything - the scribble's "time" value is updated.

_scribble_array[@ __SCRIBBLE.TIME] = current_time;

I guess that's all right, but when it comes to autotype, it checks the scribble's delta time before actually updating it. I suppose this makes sense, because if you would try to draw the scribble multiple times in one step, it would update more times than it's supposed to. Unfortunately, when I try to draw the scribble for real immediately afterward pre-caching it (or fetching the cached version), the Scribble's delta time is always going to be zero

var _increment_timers = ((current_time - _scribble_array[__SCRIBBLE.TIME]) > __SCRIBBLE_EXPECTED_FRAME_TIME);

and the scribble autotype position remains in the purgatorial state of 0 for the [FGothic][shake][rainbow]rest of eternity.[]

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My guess at what the solution to this should be would be to only set _scribble_array[@ __SCRIBBLE.TIME] (a) when the scribble is created or (b) when it's actually vertex_submitted so that it doesn't interfere with madmen like me who like to use it as a way to invisibly fetch stuff from the cache, but I don't know if there are any other reasons the time value would need to be set or not.

[JujuAdams]

Fixed 5.4.4