How to fix an alarm event not triggering? [Gamemaker studio]

Question

Object_1's alarm 1 event

show_message("alarm triggered");
if (Destroy = true){
    instance_destroy();
}

Object_trigger's alarm start

 while (!ds_stack_empty(obj_Handle_Links.Link_Stack))
      {
        temporary = ds_stack_pop(obj_Handle_Links.Link_Stack);
        temporary.Destroy = true;
        temporary.image_index = 0;
      }
        alarm[1] = 3;

Comments:

I've tried changing the alarm (and alarm event). I've tried having the alarm[1]=3 in and out of the while loop. I've tried changing the values assigned to alarm.

No matter what I do, the alarm event just doesn't trigger. It doesn't hit the show_message. I just don't know what is going on.

Answer 1

The alarm needs to be on the same object. When invoking alarm it's reading the local alarms, you would need to do Object_1.alarm[index] to be able to change that.