Several feature suggestions and user experience improvements

[mikke89]

This tool is really coming along nicely, keep up the good work!

In the meantime, here are some various suggestions:

• Add a select mode tool (default), which only selects sprites.
• It would be nice with a field to edit or remove the spritesheet name making it anonymous. Maybe a property pane where we can also edit source and resolution, and see the style sheet it was loaded from?
• A property pane for the selected sprite instead of the edit popout.
• A menu item for reloading current style sheet. Possibly overwriting any changes made, should warn in this case.
• Remember last opened folder/open in the same folder as current style sheet, or open folder in the same as filled in field.
• Remember previous settings in the sprite packer dialog.
• A history for previously loaded style sheets. Remember the current session for next time we open the tool.
• Ability to preview sprite packer output before selecting an output image.
• Sprite packer: No warnings when sprites are not added due to too small resolution.
• Changing the "View -> Draw..." options does not immediately affect the displayed output.

[svenvvv]

Thank you for the kind words and very good suggestions!

I've copied them below to keep track of them. I created separate issues for some of the larger-to-implement ones (and the one I consider a bug). I implemented the changes required for three of the fast ones, but updating is not recommended until #12 is fixed.

The spritesheet properties will be displayed in property pane when no sprite is selected, but the precursor to that is the properties pane for sprites. Just as a sidenote: currently it's possible to edit source and resolution using the corresponding "Edit" menu items, but in the future I'd like to decouple the RCSS-specific code from the UI code so the proposed change is a good idea.

• [X] Ability to preview sprite packer output before selecting an output image.
• [X] A history for previously loaded style sheets. Remember the current session for next time we open the tool.
• [X] Changing the "View -> Draw..." options does not immediately affect the displayed output.
• [ ] A menu item for reloading current style sheet. Possibly overwriting any changes made, should warn in this case.
• [ ] Remember last opened folder/open in the same folder as current style sheet, or open folder in the same as filled in field.
• [ ] Remember previous settings in the sprite packer dialog.
• [ ] Add a select mode tool (default), which only selects sprites.

Created issues:

18: Sprite packer: No warnings when sprites are not added due to too small resolution.

19: A property pane for the selected sprite instead of the edit popout.

20: It would be nice with a field to edit or remove the spritesheet name making it anonymous. Maybe a property pane where we can also edit source and resolution, and see the style sheet it was loaded from?