• auto pick tileset when creating a new tile layer

Make it more compact/smart

• Faster layer rendering using TileGroups
• More selective invalidate/re-render for LevelRender
• Better HTML cursor rendering in Tileset picker
• Better rules re-evaluation
• CPU/GPU usage (#331)

Bugs

• Fix GMTK bugs (see #4 )
• Move grid spacing to RC2 (remove it from current editor)

Missing features

• Haxe client API (see #7 )
• Quick save using last filename
• Implement Tileset deletion
• Implement Entities sorting
• Implement Levels sorting
• Implement Level deletion
• Level resizing
• Entity "Enum" values (see #5 )
• Project "save as"

Enhancements

• Add Pivot coord for Tiles when layer grid differs from Tileset grid
• Add a special "one-last-chance" Undo for critical changes (level deletion, layer deletion etc.)

File format

• Replace Enum serialization with more human-readable values
• Avoid duplicate identifiers (see #9 )

Packaging & distrib

• Decide between electron & NWJS
• Package a redist

• Alt not releasing on alt-tab / window focus lost
• Ctrl-Alt click stuck in free mode when starting on no element

https://neutralino.js.org/docs/#/gettingstarted/firstapp?id=step-1-download-the-sdk

https://lukasznojek.com/blog/2020/04/neutralinojs-vs-electronjs/

Electron

• ~Easier to package
• Quite heavy
• Popular

NWJS

• Heavy (~230Mo)
• Easy to setup

Neutralino

• Super lightweight
• Experimental
• not NodeJS

• Check packaged version
• Build an itch.io temp page

• try Electron auto-updater: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/auto-updater

Remap enum icons & entity icons

• Move package.*.json out of app
• Rename app>bin
• Update scripts
• Add a npm start script

• better "list of values" UI
  • editable name
  • sortable list
  • custom color
  • custom icon/tile
• External import
  • HX source file (ie. Types.hx)
  • CastleDB
  • Exp DB (home: https://github.com/kevinresol/exp-db)
• tidy project when editing enum def

See: https://www.electron.build/auto-update#module_electron-updater.AppUpdater+quitAndInstall

• Build a runtime typed structure using macros
• Added API methods comments
• Write README
• Link imported HX enums to their corresponding code enums?
• Better tileset reloading (see #6 )
• Add tileset methods

• Pattern editor
• Support multiple random tiles for 1 rule
• Seed random
• Support symmetry
• Optimize using bit masks?
• Optional rule break
• Pattern folders/groups
• Move rule matching to a pure-data storage
• Update auto-layer to use pre-cached data
• Export data in JSON for easier parsing

Read

• https://livebook.manning.com/book/cross-platform-desktop-applications/chapter-1/140

You can resize the canvas region into negative cell/pixel values. Predictably this breaks drawing onto it properly, and messes with the display locations of several of the canvas UI helpers.

• CastleDB
• ExpDB (https://github.com/kevinresol/exp-db)
• VScode Depot (https://twitter.com/cantatagame)
• CSV file
• JSON file

• "pink" screen
• Enum tiles remapping

• Remove scripts
• Remove #if nwjs code blocks

Electron

• https://www.christianengvall.se/electron-packager-tutorial/

NWJS

• https://github.com/evshiron/nwjs-builder-phoenix
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/nwjs-packager

• API comments
• README
• Screenshots
• Animated GIFs
  • VScode completion
• Better doc table-of-content (keep on all pages)

Add support for auto-tiling (see: https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/2d/autotile_intro/)

Various useful links:

• http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/wang/stage.html
• https://opengameart.org/content/seamless-tileset-template-ii
• https://manual.yoyogames.com/The_Asset_Editors/Tile_Set_Editors/Auto_Tiles.htm

Closing a file that has not been saved already gives you a prompt to ignore map changes or to cancel the close attempt. It seems strange to me that direct Save functionality is not in this prompt as well.

Universal reference that can point to any GenericMapElement

• Add a custom parallax factor to layer settings
• Display layers in editor using parallax factor
• Edit layers using actual parallax factors

• check consequences
• update everything

• Add X,Y coords to levels
• Generate a level preview
• Display levels in a world view

• the nextUid in Project is a central conflict point
• rework all UIDs to only work locally (ie. UID is no longer globally unique, but locally unique)
• move definitions to external files ?
• remove levels array from the main project JSON completely ?
• move each level to an individual file (all stored in a fixed directory structure)

Display warning on Level list when it contains an error (such as null Enum value on EntityInstance)

Allow creation & editing of custom property values for Levels, in the same way as Entity fields.

• cleanup & separate field def form
• add level fieldDefs to project
• add fieldInstances to levels
• add level field instance form
• display them in world view

• Shift+click to fill a tile layer area
• Shift+click to fill an intGrid layer area

BUGS

• Fix alt+click shortcuts not working properly sometimes (steps to reproduce: CTRL-ALT-drag outside of an Entity)
• Entities disappearing
• Background not updating
• Viewport improperly positionned after resizing window or using Compact mode
• Fix zoom attach point coords when using mousewheel on viewport

EXTRA FEATURES

• Add global enums
• Better level selection window (move level settings form to another panel)
• Tileset reloading
• Add Entity field "over" position
• Entity icons
• Better indicator of the current active layer (fade others)

Design decisions

• avoid integrating image data inside the project file?

Todo

• auto reload when image changes while app is running
• auto reload when image changes while app is closed
• remap tile IDs if image width changes
• add a manual reload button?