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In fact, you can't even assign close_dialog to a variable then because it does not have any value in GML - all you can do with it then is call it. If it is an extension function (or a built-in function - I don't own Studio so what do I know) then it does not actually have an ID, and you can't call it with script_execute.

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If close_dialog is actually a script, your suggested code will work fine. Now with that background out of the way, on to your actual question. In my opinion, it would be perfectly fine to allow this in the language, but it does not work - the function call operator actually does care about the name of the thing you try to call. If you are thinking ahead a bit, you might wonder whether you need script_execute at all then, or if you could instead just do this: script = close_dialog In the end, script_execute only cares about the number that is passed, not about the name of the variable that this number comes from. Now it should be obvious that assigning the numeric value of close_dialog to a variable first and then calling script_execute on that variable is perfectly OK. In other words, instead of calling script_execute(close_dialog) you could just as well call script_execute(14) if you happened to know that the ID of close_dialog is 14 (although that is bad practice, since it make the code difficult to understand and brittle against ID changes). script_execute will find the script with that ID in some internal table and then run the script. Now, the function script_execute(script) takes as argument the ID of the script that should be executed. Everything else (objects, sprites, scripts, data structures, instances and so on) is represented with a number in your GML code.ДЇor example, you might have an object called 'Player' which has all kinds of fancy events, but to the code Player is just a constant number which you can (e.g.) print out with show_message(string(Player)) GML is a rather simple-minded beast, it only knows two data types: strings and numbers. You seem to have some confusion over how Game Maker works, so I will try to address this before I get around to the actual question.

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