0003197: Ship editor initial status screen does not reliably update mission file

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003197	FSSCP	FRED	public	2017-04-24 04:56	2019-12-15 06:26

Reporter	Hippo	Assigned To	FSCyborg
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Platform	Windows

Summary	0003197: Ship editor initial status screen does not reliably update mission file
Description	The Initial Status window box for speed does not save a value of 0 to the mission file. A non-zero value is saved, but when 0 is entered the "+Initial Velocity: " line disappears from the mission when opened in notepad instead of properly recording 0. This does not occur with hull or shields. A second, possibly related bug, is that the checkbox for "has shield system" is also not written to the mission file when unchecked. I'm not sure if it's stored as a bool and possibly any 0 values are filtered out for some reason. When the global shield settings are changed, the mission reacts as expected, but that flag is applied as the "no-shields" flag, not a bool on the ship status. I did not test the other 7 settings in that screen.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-04-24 04:56	Hippo	New Issue
2019-12-15 06:24	FSCyborg	Note Added: 0016946
2019-12-15 06:26	FSCyborg	Assigned To	=> FSCyborg
2019-12-15 06:26	FSCyborg	Status	new => closed
2019-12-15 06:26	FSCyborg	Resolution	open => fixed

FSCyborg 2019-12-15 06:24 developer ~0016946	I thought this was weird too when I first saw it, but if it's the default value it doesn't write the value to the file because there's no need to change the value in the engine.