mapeditor
Jump to location by tile coordinates
It would be nice if you could jump to a location on the map by entering the tile coordinates.
Somewhat related or not, in some cases it would be nice to have a "tile ruler" to both axis of the map similar to the rulers in GIMP or other image editors.
@JFonS In terms of navigation it's related, but of course it's an entirely different feature. A ruler is also mentioned at issue #368.
Hey, @Jchinjm and I are students who have to contribute to an open source project for an assignment. We were wondering if we could contribute to this feature request. Thanks!
@OsamahAnsari Sure, you're welcome to work on this feature!
You may take #1446 as a base, which was never entirely finished. However, it might be better to start from scratch. Tiled now has a "jump to file" popup on Ctrl+P, which could feature a mode to jump to a tile location as well. So, Ctrl+Shift+G could then pop up this filter in the "go to tile" mode (similar to how in Sublime Text, this popup can jump to a line if you type a : at the start). Of course that'll not be entirely trivial since currently the locatorwidget.cpp is entirely written for project file search.
I understand I am late to contributing, but I see this problem is still open. This will be my first time contributing to a GitHub project. Do you mind if I help on this feature? Should I also use 1446 as a base?
@Dartho12 You're welcome to have a look into this! Like I said in my last comment, I think it would be nice to re-use the LocatorWidget for this purpose. In the meantime, this widget is a little more customizable and is used both for file name search as well as action search.
I think a "jump to tile" function could added by implementing another LocatorSource that returns a single entry for a typed coordinate, but could also be extended to allow typing in for example the name of an object to jump to (could be a follow-up change).
