Ability to Search For and Group Tilesets

[benjamin-kirkbride]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have a ton of tilesets (literally hundreds, don't ask) and would like to be able to search through them and also categorize them.

Describe the solution you'd like
Any combination of:

• a search
• a tagging system
• folders
• ordering

Describe alternatives you've considered
excruciating scrolling

[eishiya]

I thought there was an issue for this already, but apparently not!
Related feature request: #873

For now, there is the Projects panel and the Search In Project (default shortcut: Ctrl+P), which can be used bring up the relevant tilesets by their location or name. However, while this is useful for opening a tileset, it won't help if the problem is that you already have too many tilesets open to begin with.

I think a related feature request would be the option to hide Tilesets panel tabs for tilesets that are not part of the current map.

[benjamin-kirkbride]

Yeah certainly a lot of discussion to be had about exactly how this should/could be implemented.

Is anyone familiar with the JS or Python Plugins able to speak to whether this could be added via that?

[benjamin-kirkbride]

Looking through the docs, it seems that it's only possible to create temporary dialogs/modals, and that it is not possible to create new views.

Is this correct?

https://www.mapeditor.org/docs/scripting/

[eishiya]

That is correct, sort of.

It's possible to make a Dialog that lets you search currently open tilesets based on custom properties and bring up a single tileset as the currently active tileset in the Tilesets panel though, which should cover most needs. If multiple matches are found, the dialog can display a list for you to select one from.

Dialogs are not modal, they can also persist while you work without closing, so it's possible to use them to make a sort of filterable shortcut board for different tilesets.

[benjamin-kirkbride]

I see, but you can't put it into the UI like the Layers Panel, for instance. Perhaps a new issue should be made for that haha