Maps in separate windows? or only tabs?

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Does Tiled have the ability to show maps in two separate windows? Or only 1 map at a time in tabs? I would like to be able to see two maps at once, for the purpose of rapidly copying things between them…

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While each instance of Tiled is confined to one window with documents in tabs, you can have multiple instances of Tiled open, and copy+paste tiles, etc between them.

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How do you run a second instance on a Mac?

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Would it work to run the executable directly from the console? Like, by launching /Applications/Tiled.app/Contents/MacOS/Tiled.

While it would be nice to support displaying several map views at once, it can easily lead to a complex UI so care needs to be taken to keep it intuitive. Maybe it would be enough if there was a way to open an additional window in the same process, but this will probably require major code changes already.

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I understand - it is not that big a deal, was pretty much a one-time thing I needed to do.

And yes, you are right you can use the command-line to run a separate instance. You can use the open -n terminal command, like this:

open -n /Applications/Tiled.app

Thanks!

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