Partial Code Refactor + Implement FFXIV Chat Window

[ms2mml]

A large refactor of the XIV chat extender.

• Clean up config saving/editing
  • Remove redundant/unneeded variables and use values from config object
  • Use json deserialization to read config, rather than hard-coding the logic
  • Make it more convenient to add new channels without having to change multiple places in the code
• Complete rewrite of text wrapping implementation to fix spacing issues
• Implement correct link highlighting on mouse-over, including links across multiple lines
• Optimization of UI rendering
  • Added an outline font to reduce the number of times that text needs to be rendered to produce the outline effect
  • Coarse visibility culling of the scrolling area to prevent rendering the entire chat buffer each frame
  • Approximation heuristic to compute total amount of wrapped lines that chat takes up, computed only on settings update/window resize (for computing scroll area height)
  • Compute exact text wrapping for non-culled lines only
  • Increased chat buffer size to 200k (up from 256)
• Add test project/payload saving for easy debugging of UI issues without having to run FFXIV
• Removal of features unrelated to the chat box
  • Mostly to make refactoring easier to maintain, features can be merged back later
  • Removed code related to chat bubble/translate/etc
• Misc features
  • Added regex string filtering
  • Changed 2nd color option in a channel for setting outline color, instead of the channel abbreviation color

[Haplo064]

Currently looking through it.

[Davidj361]

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