This adds a new class which allows to create type safe resource handle
types. At the moment, the engine uses ints pretty much everywhere for
providing handles to resources created by the specific subsystems. Since
all ints are the same to the C/C++ typesystem it is perfectly legal to
pass a sound handle to the graphics API as a buffer handle which will
obviously cause issues.
This adds a new type called "ID" which is a wrapper class for a generic
handle but with added type safety. An instance of this class cannot be
passed to a function expecting another type of handle which provided
compile-time type safety for these APIs.
As an initial test I converted the game sound handles to this new type.
I already found a bug in the mainhall system thanks to this new type.
The mainhall used the game sound handles as sound instance handles which
probably meant that that specific code never really worked right. I
removed the code since there was no better alternative for fixing it.
This introduces a new mechanism for handling bit flags. Instead of using an int (or two, or three) to write bits into, this uses the std::bitset in a wrapper class that accepts an enum class as input. This means that certain classes of errors we've had a few of in the engine, where a coder used the wrong set of flags or checked them against the wrong variable (SF_STEALTH vs SIF_STEALTH, for example) can now be detected at a compiler level rather than not at all.
Remove support for the IPX protocol. The IPX selector button in the multi
options menu is now hidden, and the TCP button is disabled since there is no other option.
A memory location at a negative offset from the beginning of the array will be read, resulting in incorrect values.
In multi_create_standalone_object(): Negative value used to index an array in a read operation
observer_create() will only fail in exceptional circumstances so a showing an error dialog should be acceptable
Converts Ship_info from a ship_info[] to an SCP_vector<ship_info>. ship_info now has proper constructors, assignment operators, and a destructor. Num_ship_classes removed; various references to Num_ship_classes and/or MAX_SHIP_CLASSES (which remains for various other structures which need it) changed to Ship_info.size() instead.
This doesn't make the ship class limit dynamic, but it is a preparatory step to get there.
MASSIVE thanks to Mjn.Mixael and Blue Planet for tireless constant testing.
(It's still not perfect, but it probably wouldn't be where it is at without them)
Spans a lot from initial commit to AP Branch in r6835.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.icculus.org/fs2open/trunk@9561 387891d4-d844-0410-90c0-e4c51a9137d3
bunch of standalone fixage for error reporting and various little signon issues
fix heartbeats for standalone servers
make proper use of +pxo in multi.cfg for standalone so that games can show up in the lobby
client-side fix for getting pilot stats in lobby (Mantis #1652)
Taylor Richards