Show tile ids (global and local) in status bar about tiled HOT 11 CLOSED

Local IDs would be possible to show, but global IDs only exist in the map file as a way to map each tile to the right tile in multiple tilesets. The global ID is subject to change when tilesets are reordered, removed or resized, so are they really useful to show?

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When hovering over tiles in a tileset I would expect to see local id's, but hovering over a tile in the world I would expect to see global ids. I don't know about anyone else but I use global Id's in my game when referring to tiles and building their functionality. If its not possible to show global id's, then local would be fine :)

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So GIDs only change, when tilesets are

reordered, removed or resized

This can be tracked and at any change the firstGID of a tileset (if you'd save it right now, so more a hypothetically firstGID of a tileset) could be recalculated. Then at hovering over tiles a GID of a tile can be shown. This GID is also just that number which would be GID if saving the map as it is now.

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It looks like the existing pull request isn't going anywhere, So I took a stab at implementing it based on the feedback in this issue, and the existing request.

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I removed the local Id display because I didn't want to take up a lot of space in the statusbar, but it could be added back in.

Does this look like a good way to add this feature? And a good way to handle the GidMapper?

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@MHendricks The global IDs are subject to change and should not be used in people's code. Displaying them would only serve to encourage that practice. Also, the global IDs include bitflags for flipping tiles, making them sometimes huge unfriendly numbers.

In contrast it could be useful to show the local IDs, if only to make it easier to understand the way the tiles in the tileset are numbered. I would only do that when hovering the tileset view, though, since as soon as you have multiple tilesets showing that number when hovering the map is a little pointless.

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The above change only adds it to the new Properties window rather than to the status bar, but I think that's good enough and resolves this issue.

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showing local tile IDs while hovering in the tileset view would be sufficient for me!

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@kheftel This would be nice indeed, but my time is very limited so I hope that you don't mind that as of this change, you will still need to actually click the tile to see its local ID in the Properties window.

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No worries, I know you volunteer your time! Ps I don't know how to build Tiled, when will this feature make it into a Windows build?

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@kheftel I've just updated the Windows "daily" build!

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woohoo!

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