[Suggestion]Icon as type for plugin parameters and plugin command parameters

Is this feature to any use for you?

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BurningOrca

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Description of the Feature:
For plugin parameter that should represent icon indexes I'd like to suggest adding a new type @type icon or @type iconIndex that should basically convert back to a number.
If this is already possible and I just didn't find the right @type for this, please tell me! Would also be nice in MV, but I put it into the MZ suggestions as it is the newest Maker. Also "@type balloon" would be nice aswell and may has some use cases, but I keep my suggestion to "@type icon" as icons are more common within plugin parameters.

Mockups:
Instead of this:
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I'd like it to pop up the icon select window.

Why is this feature good?
This feature saves time, because you do not need to do the following steps:
- Go back into the database
- Open any tab that has icons
- Open the icon selection
- Select the icon you want
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- Remember the number
- Go back into the plugin manager
- Enter the number

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Tsukihime

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I'd use it.

Just like how they let you select an animation in the skill tab instead of a drop down.

Visual is so much better.
 

Trihan

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I wanted this too. They already have ones for animations and states, so why not icons?
 

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Yea, there is already a right-click option ("Insert Icon Index" in MZ, "Iconset Viewer" in MV) to insert an icon index into a parameter field, but it'd be nice to have a dedicated type for ease of use~
 

BurningOrca

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@caethyril Oh, thanks for telling me! I've never thought about right clicking in the parameters. That already saves me so much time. I just have to remember, that it seems to only work in the text tab, not the number tab.

But now knowing that, I am pretty sure, that this topic will be rejected, as it basically already works.
 
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