View tileset and tile properties at the same time.

[Dalqin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Hi,
I would like to view a tileset's individual Tile Properties while simultaneously viewing the same tileset's Tileset Properties.

My scenarios is...
I am looking to use the custom Tileset Properties to describe animated sprites for my game.
One example Tileset Property I'm looking to create is called WalkLeftAnimationTileIds which will be a comma-separated string of the local tile ids which make up the animation.

I find myself switching to and from Tile Properties and Tileset Properties so that I can build my comma-separated ID list, then typing it into the Tileset Property, but doing so is slow. Maybe there is a faster way already, but I am not finding it. Currently, I use the header menu option Tileset -> Tileset Properties.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to see a new icon within the Tileset view which opens a new, second properties editor in the position of the the other editors (Tile Animation Editor and Tile Collision Editor). The existing properties panel would stay, but default to showing tile zero's properties and only ever show tile properties.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Some other options I thought of:

1. Making it easier to switch between tile and tileset properties.
   • Introduce a hotkey for viewing Tileset properties.
   • Add Alt + T to the header menu shortcuts, so that I could Alt + T, then P. This one is my least favorite.
   • When clicking outside the boundaries of the tiles, or deselecting a tile, have the Properties panel change to show Tileset Properties.
   • When multiple tiles are selected, Ctrl + c to copy copies the tile IDs of the selected tiles into the clipboard. (this at least means I do not need to remember (or write into a notepad) the ID numbers before navigating to Tileset Properties).
   • Allow me to open the same .tsx file multiple times in Tiled. This way I could Ctrl + Tab between, where one which has Tile Properties selected and the other has Tileset Properties selected. (Actually, while writing this I thought to try opening two whole instances of Tiled to do this same idea, and that works for me. But since I wrote all this and would prefer to use one instance of Tiled instead of two I thought to keep the feature request :p)

[eishiya]

Duplicate of #3101

You can assign a custom hotkey to Tileset Properties in Edit > Preferences > Keyboard.

For your specific scenario, since it sounds like you're doing an unusual but simple and repetitive task, consider using Tiled scripting. Also, for animations, consider using the built-in animation editor. You can connect multiple animations with a smaller number of custom properties (e.g. you can define just the starts of each one, and that tile will contain the rest, and preview them in Tiled for you).

[Dalqin]

Thank you for the suggestions.

I discovered that you can set keybindings within Tiled's preferences, which solves my situation well enough. I can switch to Tileset properties fast with a hotkey and that allows me to work quickly.

Thanks for reading!