Scribble VS GMEdit

Just use Scribble. Your method is highly inefficient using an object for each character, and Scribble will handle everything you need and a lot more very efficiently.

I believe Scribble has solutions for this sort of thing.

You may also look into /u/JujuAdam's Scribble if you plan on doing lots of text rendering.

Use Scribble

I recommand the plugin Scribble by JujuAdams. It’s way, way better for writing text than the vanilla way.

I wrote two specific libraries for this: https://github.com/JujuAdams/chatterbox for branching dialogue and https://github.com/JujuAdams/scribble for text rendering. The former is being used in Schrodinger's Catgirl, the latter is being used in Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon, Poinpy, Skies Of Chaos, and a bunch of other commercial games.

If you'd like a practical, working example then you can read the source code for Scribble.

Don't try to re-write GameMaker's built-in systems (with the exception of this)

Yup so there has been quite a few releases since that video. If you want to follow along the version you want is the same as I downloaded 7.0.3 (https://github.com/JujuAdams/Scribble/releases/tag/7.0.3)

You can grab GMEdit to open the objects in a single "file" and then copy the code out that way. GMEdit is at https://yellowafterlife.itch.io/gmedit and it's free

Make it quicker by editing your projects on the GMEdit IDE which is free. Even quicker with GMLive which isn't free but not expensive either. Even quicker with some of jujuadams libraries, specifically input and scribble.

This is a bit of a hard question to answer if you're not well versed in GMEdit (https://yellowafterlife.itch.io/gmedit), but hopefully someone here knows how to solve this issue for me.

GMEdit by YAL has this iirc

Install the Beta Version of GMEdit