How do you make it so that when the mouse arrow is on one of the menu bottons,, it lights up, and when you move it it changes back?

Put this in step event of the button object,

and make a 2 frame animation where one button is normal , and one is lighted up.

or you can do it without an code just use the mouse event and then mouse enter
and then use an var (image_single and at value 2 if picture 2 is the lighter one)
and if you want to go out with the mouse just use the event of the mouse mouse out and then the same so (image_single and at value 1 if the dark picture is 1)

Thats just how I did it to

But code is so much neater.

ya, i think code is neater, and besides, i heard that d & d slows your game down. Is that true?

i don't think so and why should it slow down your game it is d&d is just a type of shortcut to a code
and becuase i am not really experienced with gml coding i use drag and drop and gml coding

well, sometimes you have to use code to do something, there isn't a d & d for every function!

and isn't the d&d a long cut cuz the regular way would be to just use code, but when you use d & d it writes the code and then executes it.

If I dont know a code for it I will find a hard way to do it, and who care about neatness, as long as the game gets done.

how, now i know that u like to do stuff the hard way. Now stop replying to week old posts!

I say code is the harder way.
You have to type whole words instead of draging domething into a box and selecting a menu option.
And code is so much easier to read!

i agree, code is much easier to read...and for some things u NEED code to do it (no d & d actions). But if ur really good at coding(like me ;) ), it is much quicker than d & d.

And Mark is working to get it faster, 4 times faster I think.

Is that upgrade coming out in version 5.1?

Yeah.