# Development Updates

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/development-updates/1959>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 15, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/development-updates/1959 "2017-01-15T21:28:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/development-updates/1959/5 "2017-02-17T21:14:10Z")

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### 2017-02-03

Somehow I found some time on Friday to fix two more group-layer related issues:

- [7106d93](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/7106d93cb6e321514475b72454a5eb799afabb77) Fixed the Show/Hide all Other Layers action for grouped layers
- [86482b8](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/86482b884b6685fef6ef45fd9d116a97eb8c7159) Fixed an issue with the Move Layer Down action on group layers

### 2017-02-06

- [6f99802](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/6f99802452365f9e7e212326de62e7e652f3bac2) Fixed the Move Layer Down action some more

I spent the rest of the day adding support for layer groups to the data model used for the Objects view, but I didn’t manage to finish it yet.

### 2017-02-07

Today I made a huge amount of progress on group layer support and eventually pushed it to the development snapshots. Highlights inlude:

- [539989d](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/539989d36101b58114f9172628205f0e67efc643) Support group layers in the Objects view
- [d2771fc](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/d2771fc4a3e1a013b801753100eb7471217f092d) Fixed group layer handling in layer combo box
- [38712a4](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/38712a4d9c76c8f15f98d0d0f1095abdfe00b74e) Used the standard directory icon for the group layers
- [1b49e06](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/1b49e0622ffc5eef19fb9619573023e8256cf8e4) Fixed handling of group layer offset
- [f4b1f99](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/f4b1f9980d9bee3ba8a56fcdb1136af05d65cca6) Added handling of group layers to tmxrasterizer

I also found some time for fun things like:

- [1ecd50a](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/1ecd50adb793dddc35ca3e161e396dc95a89f1a7) Replaced include guards with #pragma once
- [026e653](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/026e6533e65a1e57b1e3de934d3aceef9b9d437a) Updated copyright year in About dialog

### 2017-02-13

With the group layers mostly done (and still awaiting your feedback), I moved on to adding a Text object. This was not only a much requested feature ([#193](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/issues/193), [#1429](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/issues/1429)), but it even [has a $100 bounty](https://www.bountysource.com/issues/40744214-text-object). I estimated it would take me only one day, but it turned out to be rather more work.

Some small changes committed today:

- [f0d8687](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/f0d868774d192da10a4246b327882469f7064994) Tried to improve the readability of MapObject class a little
- [5682582](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/568258225fe23713e0e82f9d51d243773b19d4eb) Replaced more foreach with range-based for

### 2017-02-14

- [468e606](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/468e6067e08e0b39355597b0cef311071df45df3) QtPropertyBrowser: Font-property changes
- [33e048b](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/commit/33e048b2ddc9722fbf491562fb9bc8883a34f78c) Added a Text object

The first change was necessary because the QtPropertyBrowser was using point size, whereas for Tiled to display text objects at the same size regardless of the DPI of the display, the font size needed to be specified in pixels.

Support for the new Text object isn’t entirely finished yet, since there is no way to change the alignment of the text yet. It could also be extended in various other ways, including possible [support for bitmap fonts](http://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/text-object-and-bitmap-fonts/1987). However, it already has a lot of features including color, font style and word wrapping. Here’s a screenshot I made to show it off:

![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex035/uploads/mapeditor/original/2X/0/09af67b70d0bd6060dcb96987ac542b591ed0eab.png)

If you’re interested, please give it a try by using a development snapshot!

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