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

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

• 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

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?

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

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

• auto pick tileset when creating a new tile layer

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

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

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.

Electron

• ~Easier to package
• Quite heavy
• Popular

NWJS

• Heavy (~230Mo)
• Easy to setup

Neutralino

• Super lightweight
• Experimental
• not NodeJS

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

• 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

Electron

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

NWJS

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

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

Universal reference that can point to any GenericMapElement

• 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)

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

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.

Remap enum icons & entity icons

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

• "pink" screen
• Enum tiles remapping

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

• 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)

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

• Remove scripts
• Remove #if nwjs code blocks

Make it more compact/smart

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

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

• 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

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)

• check consequences
• update everything

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

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