drag into script interpreter

[Nick Draper]

If possible

1. workspace -> import statement
2. file -> if .py execfile statement
3. text -> paste

[Nick Draper]

re #8450 drop drop workspace names to ipython

Changeset: ff6fdb75b496d89d5aa158475a77aea405025f09

[Russell Taylor]

Re #8450. No C++11 range-based for loop in gcc 4.4.

But here we can use the Qt foreach construct instead.

Changeset: e64882ce5499b63fa945f3a8c6b71b975e13743b

[Nick Draper]

re #8450 dragdrop added, had to rearrage some of the other drops

Changeset: aa69b2db210e0f099948aaffe0a1a7938dfe9756

[Nick Draper]

re #8450 more foreaching

Changeset: 3bf81f3d14b7f1fdaf6f39a91ba2ef95ac7dba18

[Nick Draper]

To test:

1. drag text onto the script interpreter
2. drag one or more workspaces onto the script interpreter
3. Drag a file onto the script interpreter ("it puts on the filename - that is as much as we can do here.

There were some other changes so also test:

1. drag one or more workspaces onto the Main (grey) mdi window
2. drag data files onto the main mdi area
3. drag py files onto the main mdi area
4. drag data files onto the workspace toolbox

[Keith Brown]

Changes work rather well and as expected (with a couple of exceptions restricted by ipython it seems)

A minor point of concern was that if a file is dragged from a file manager window, and that file take a while to load, it causes a noticeable lock of the file manager window while mantid is loading the file. It's been deemed 'ignorable until it becomes an issue' as I've tried preparing a very meaty file and giving it to MS word in the same way to see if MS Word locks the file manager window while it loads it - it doesn't, thus this could ultimately be fixable, but until a user reports it we'll deem this lock okay as it'll probably be more trouble than it's worth to solve for the little we get out of it.

[Nick Draper]

Merge branch 'feature/8450_script_interpreter_dragdrop' of github.com:mantidproject/mantid into feature/8450_script_interpreter_dragdrop

Full changeset: ​657a912da7883f40e900b92855dd53e1405f90cd

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​9294