* add wing display names
Adds display name capability for wings, matching the pattern and infrastructure of display names for ships. As in #7234, wing display names take precedence over ship display names, if both are provided; because if ship display names took precedence, a ship would have the same display name in every wave.
All the relevant display locations are handled, including the HUD, escort list, message box, and mission log. Lua API support is provided as well.
Adds full support for both FRED and QtFRED, including the always-save-display-names setting.
Addresses #7189 and the last request from #1730.
* add help text from #7234
Testing in FotG exposed a bug that dates back to retail. During mission parsing, arrival and departure anchors were represented by indexes into `Parse_names`. After parsing, they were converted to ship indexes -- but only in FRED. Since some functions are shared between FRED and FS2, this can produce inconsistent results, which can be hard to detect since parse indexes and ship indexes are usually the same.
This refactors arrival and departure anchors to be represented by ship registry indexes in all cases. It also adds conversion functions for the benefit of FRED and QtFRED since those dialogs were designed with ship indexes in mind.
There are a few places in the Lua script API where a variable could be some type of "object" or something that is not an "object" but is still useful - one example is the return value from oswpt:get(). With this function, scripts will be able to tell what the variable is without risking an exception.
This refactors the object_h struct to store objects as indexes rather than pointers. This is a prerequisite for making the collection of objects dynamic in the future. See also #6100.
Follow-up to #5800 and #5829.
To enforce type safety for arrival and departure locations, this converts them to enum classes. Various casts are added when appropriate to convert between the indexed and enum values.
Turn `Parse_names` into a vector and add SCP_string overloads of ship registry functions. Refactor calling code to use registry as appropriate. Remove an unused overload of `mission_parse_get_parse_object`.
1) Upgrade the pilot file code to correctly save flags whether entries are added *or* removed
2) Make the tech-db/tech-db-multi ship flag handling consistent
3) Add scripting support for intel entries
4) Add scripting support for adding and removing entries from the tech room
5) Minor cleanup
This maintains the type information which can be used for enforce
const-correctness and also for implementing more advanced ways of
handling the type information.
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