Several things going on here:
1) refactor `get_display_string()` to `get_display_name()` to be more precise
2) likewise, refactor `alt_name` to `display_name`
3) automatically generate display names when parsing the ship, ship class, and weapon class for the first time
4) remove the on-the-fly truncation of names with hash symbols
Basically this subsumes the `end_string_at_first_hash_symbol` logic into the display name. Rather than truncate the name every time it's displayed, truncate it once when it's parsed. This takes advantage of the previous display name infrastructure, since display names are a superset of the case of truncating the hash symbol.
This also has the benefit of now allowing hash symbols within display names. When updating Destiny of Peace, I noticed that "Lockheed Shuttle #4" would no longer display properly; and it was not previously possible to fix this even with display names.
I could pull out the `get_display_string()` and `alt_name` renaming into a separate PR if desired.
This is a minor follow-up to PR #2390. There are a few minor differences between untranslated strings and the internal strings in strings.tbl; this PR fixes them.
This adds a mission file option for ships which allows specifying a
different string which should be used for displaying the name of the
ship to the user. This name will not be used in SEXPs or other ship
lookup functions so it can be freely translated and two ships can also
have the same display name.
The new feature can be used by adding $Display name: <string> after $Name
for a ship in a mission file. I think I added proper support for FRED
(and qtFRED) so that this new value is properly saved but it would be
great if someone could test that.
This implements one of the features requested in #1730.
Time-undocked will cause FSO to freeze unless you know what you're doing, so this PR fixes some gotcha areas. Inspired by The E's rant on Discord which, while not 100% correct, did indicate some areas for improvement.
1) Set the default "number of times docked" argument to 1 when the sexp is created in FRED, same as with the has-[un]docked-delay sexps
2) Catch any <= 0 counts when the sexp is called in FRED and set them to 1. (This was done for other sexps which used mission_log_get_time_indexed, but was not done for time-[un]docked for some reason.)
3) Add an assertion to mission_log_get_time_indexed as a last resort to guard against invalid counts.
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.
This allows to use standard TrueType Fonts for text rendering in FSO. It uses the NanoVG library which provides the ability of drawing 2D shapes. This library is used for most 2D operations now and can also be used directly by using the PathRenderer class.
--also, remove the restriction on capship cargo where ships must have the "scannable" flag
--because of the above constraints, "nothing" cannot be a meaningful subsys cargo, but then again, scanning a subsystem with "nothing" didn't do anything in the old code, so this doesn't change anything
Goober5000