Allow specialised User interfaces for specific Algorithms

[Nick Draper]

This should allow specialised user interfaces to be created for a limited number of algorithms.

This will have to include:

• A suitable interface or base class that all specialized user interfaces inherit from.
• A dynamic factory class (see kernel) that allows the user interface for a algorithm to be created.
• Final cleanup is to replace the hard coded LoadRaw dialog that the Load button uses.

Again this should remain independent from qtiplot, although it can of course use QT and mantid

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2081]) Added a method to create a bare pointer, i.e. one that is not wrapped in a boost shared_ptr. I need this for the specialized algorithm GUIs since the Qt pointers don't seem to like being wrapped. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2124]) Added a new library that is to be used for custom dialog widgets. It lives in a sub-directory of the top qtiplot directory just so that the build server can use the pre-existing script to compile it. This is the initial check-in and it is not linked to qtiplot yet. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2125]) Re #444. Slight fix to Windows build script to cope with directories containing spaces

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2126]) Another fix for directory/space issues. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2129]) Re #444. Quotes around paths in qmake files

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2131]) Re #444. Yet another try with build server

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2132]) Re #444. Should be the last fix

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2134]) Linked qtiplot with the new custom widgets library and altered the load raw button to use it. The hard-coded LoadRaw dialog code is still present but is unused. I will remove it once we are happy with the changes. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2135]) Ship new libraries with the installer. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2136]) Slight alteration for Linux case sensitivity. Re#444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2139]) Fix for boolean properties in the generic dialog and changed okClicked to overridden accept method in new dialogs. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2147]) Some more refinement of new base dialog widget to make it easier to ue with Qt Desginer. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2149]) Slight correction to dialog factory declare macro so that any namespace can be used. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2225]) Change for constructor arguments so that they are correctly passed to the super class. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2226]) Change to path for generated ui file headers to keep them out of the way. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2229]) Renamed the factory and manager classes for the custom widget library so that they reflect the fact that they can be used for creating any type of custom widget, not just subclasses of QDialog. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2235]) Changed a QMap to a QHash as it the same as a QMap (for our purposes) but has a faster lookup. Re #444

[Martyn Gigg]

(In [2240]) Slight fix to message string display in custom LoadRaw dialog. Re #444

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​1292