Implement categories for interfaces

[Martyn Gigg]

The Interfaces menu is becoming a little unwieldy. Add category support, similar to algorithms, where you then select only the categories you care about.

[Peter Parker]

Refs #7614 - Disallow customising of the "Interfaces" menu.

The menu is now handled seperately to the user's customised menus, which should otherwise work exactly as they did before.

Changeset: 99f1bce813102dd457cb48da4ab5d12bdd7a38aa

[Peter Parker]

Refs #7614 - Allow only one instance of each USW interface.

Ensure that there is only ever at most one instance of each kind of UserSubWindow interface open.

Note that this does NOT cover PyQt interfaces, which have to be policed from inside the various Python scripts themselves.

Changeset: 55e2de1be2520b2eebf654a6e06ecca9d5f5a9c9

[Peter Parker]

Refs #7614 - Group interfaces into submenus by category.

UserSubWindow interfaces will no longer compile unless they define a static categoriesInfo() function. PyQt interfaces define their categories in the Mantid properties file. If the categories string provided by an interface (UserSubWindow or PyQt) is empty, then the interface will be put in an "Uncategorised" submenu.

Multiple categories per interface are allowed, but nested categories have not been implemented.

We map interface names to categories when setting up. Removed the old pyqt_interfaces list and replaced it with calls to the keys() method of the map instead.

Changeset: 757eb65e7be68a4e34592badbd8ce889df039227

[Peter Parker]

Refs #7614 - Add "Manage Interface Category" dialog.

Tried to move things around and make the relevant code in ApplicationWindow a bit better.

Removed the ability to add interfaces to custom menus. That dialog is now solely for Adding python scripts.

Changeset: 6ccc7f6f79f0dd4360152fbdb3cb1a22c22fecd4

[Peter Parker]

Merge branch 'master' into feature/7614_interface_categories

Refs #7614

Conflicts:

Code/Mantid/MantidPlot/src/ApplicationWindow.h

Changeset: 59e4c47561e907b2decb2aa0ff62c49f9d58c5f4

[Peter Parker]

Merge branch 'feature/7614_interface_categories' into develop

Refs #7614

Conflicts:

Code/Mantid/MantidPlot/src/ApplicationWindow.h

Changeset: fa0da659dd8aed77b41abf02c7637544b6e67b35

[Peter Parker]

The new Bayes interface is not yet in master, but is partially in develop. The function returning the category names therefore had to be added to the Bayes ticket to ensure that the develop builds could pass:

​http://trac.mantidproject.org/mantid/ticket/5421#comment:79

[Peter Parker]

Refs #7614 - Correct categories for Create MD Workspace.

Changeset: d6187a2aa087013c418200a19137a64391eb0442

[Peter Parker]

To Tester:

I changed direction slightly mid-way through this ticket so it might be a good idea to look at the code changes as a whole using git test review rather than looking through the individual changesets.

• Ensure that when loading up the newly built Mantid for the first time that there are not two duplicate "Interfaces" menus; the old one which usually would have been resurrected using QSettings should not appear.

• Try adding/removing interface categories using the dialog accessible at the bottom of the Interfaces menu. Make sure that your changes are reflected in the menu itself, even when you close and then reopen Mantid.

• Make sure that the "Manage Custom Menus..." dialog works as it did previously. I've removed the "Custom Interfaces" list, but users should still be able to construct their own menus and populate them with Python scripts. Note that we don't (and never did) cover the edge case where a user defines a new menu with a name that is already used. Polishing the existing functionality of "Manage Custom Menus..." was beyond the scope of this ticket, and so users creating duplicate menus still run the risk of losing them or their contents.

[Nick Draper]

Merge conflict in ApplicationWindow.h

[Peter Parker]

Merge branch 'master' into feature/7614_interface_categories

Refs #7614.

Conflicts:

Code/Mantid/MantidPlot/src/ApplicationWindow.h

Changeset: 66f1940f61b6b38017970685dc0546850426d9ec

[Peter Parker]

Merge branch 'feature/7614_interface_categories' into develop

Refs #7614.

Conflicts:

Code/Mantid/MantidPlot/src/ApplicationWindow.h

Changeset: 5208b69d48a4bac5530f620ae27569ac8f2c3881

[Nick Draper]

Tested, works fine, missing wiki page but Peter is doing that now.

[Nick Draper]

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/feature/7614_interface_categories'

Full changeset: ​a829fd697ed3c1814d6ecd9932125508b449bf09

[Peter Parker]

Created wiki page for Manage Interface Categories, and updated the Manage Custom Menus page.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​8459