Workspaces toolbox filtering option

[Owen Arnold]

MantidPlot suggestion for SANS/Reflectometry (but also wider)

The typical processing used in SANS/Reflectometry generates very large numbers of workspaces/runs. This makes navigating the workspace list very hard. A user suggestion by Max is that we have a filter option on the workspace list (could have a Regex option as Max suggests). That way users could find all those workspaces where workspace name matches say _IvsQ only.

Nick: Could you consider this suggestion and assign the ticket if you think this is a valid thing to do in MantidPlot.

[Nick Draper]

To Test

This script is useful as it creates a lot of workspaces

C="a"
B=""
for i in range (52):
	CreateSampleWorkspace(OutputWorkspace = B+C)
	if C == "z":
	 C = "a"
	 B="A"
	else:
	 C = chr(ord(C)+1)

You need to test:

1. how this works with groups
   • intended behavior is that
     1. included groups would list all children
     2. groups with a child that matches would include just matching children and the parent group.
2. Test that the filtering is fine with workspaces being created updated and deleted.
3. Test the reaction to clear all memory.

[Nick Draper]

re #9868 simple search filtering enabled

Changeset: 203d0e82932c339869a465fad378a0da00cdd264

[Nick Draper]

re #9868 regex filtering

Changeset: 3f36947e579d994fe6955f11bb4bf27897678b36

[Dan Nixon]

This script demonstrates an issue with matching groups that have matching children when filtering for "g":

names = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'g1', 'g2', 'g3']
for name in names:
	CreateSampleWorkspace(OutputWorkspace=name)

GroupWorkspaces(['a', 'g2'], OutputWorkspace='grp')
GroupWorkspaces(['b', 'g3'], OutputWorkspace='data')

[Nick Draper]

re #9868 Adjust to handle lazy loading & perform stress test

Changeset: a6e5a96a2904282766b697810f4b128bf6e001f4

[Nick Draper]

Merge branch 'feature/9868_Workspace_FilterBox' into develop

re #9868

Conflicts:

Code/Mantid/MantidPlot/src/Mantid/MantidDock.cpp Code/Mantid/scripts/Interface/ui/reflectometer/refl_gui.py

Changeset: 339e378abc196a5e20bec28dbdf28b239d2a0bc2

[Nick Draper]

remove a bit of debugging code that troubled linux, re #9868

Changeset: b086eaab14731b08c6a2a37a6d9b6f7f59ba5c8b

[Nick Draper]

Remove Dan as a tester as he is on holiday for a week

[Nick Draper]

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into feature/9868_Workspace_FilterBox

Full changeset: ​f0943d6b5b266919b29ffba58cec4c5edfbbb4fd

[Dan Nixon]

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feature/9868_Workspace_FilterBox'

Full changeset: ​9c21f83465d638eafd1e0b68b6a78d32ef3c8b8f

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​10710