Provide a fast way to select resources from the project
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Description
Often Tiled needs the user to pick a resource, like a tileset when adding one to the map or an image when setting up a tileset. Most of the time, those resources are expected to be located within one of the directories added to the project. There should be a quicker way to select those resources than going through the system file dialog.
The Defold editor provides a good example of how this might work, essentially re-using the "open file in project" popup with a file type filter added on top. Alternatively there could be a kind of search-enables drop-down.
I'm not sure if it makes sense to force people to set up a project at this point, but it probably should remain possible to select a resource with the system file dialog as well.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing the current system file-dialog flow for selecting tilesets and images, then compare it with the described project-file popup or searchable dropdown. Done means project resources can be selected faster while the system file dialog remains available.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100