Column types on a MantidTable

[mantid-builder]

This issue was originally TRAC 4718

Original Reporter: Russell Taylor

A follow on from http://trac.mantidproject.org/mantid/ticket/4634.

By default, a qtiplot table is created with the first column labelled as [X] and subsequent columns as [Y]. Probably for a MantidTable we should just set all columns to 'no type' unless the TableWorkspace contains a specific setting (or is of a specific type such as text). In this case, setting it from the 'top' (e.g. GenericFit) should be unnecessary.

Other points:

• At the moment, the 'plottype' within the workspace is lost on saving and loading the project. I.e. display the table workspace from a fit again and the column is back to [X] not [L].
• Overloading the Table::setColPlotDesignation(int, unsigned int) method with one that takes (int, int) is odd and unnecessary.

[mantid-builder]

@NickDraper (2012-02-14T11:12:39):
I disagree that everything should be notype, but you should be able to change the column type when displaying the tableworkspace.

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@NickDraper (2012-04-30T14:12:58):
Moved at end of release 2.1

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@NickDraper (2012-08-10T12:43:39):
Moved at the end of release 2.2

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@NickDraper (2012-10-28T11:38:50):
Moved to milestone 2.4

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@NickDraper (2013-01-28T09:23:02):
Moved at the code freeze for release 2.4

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@NickDraper (2013-04-29T09:49:39):
Moved to r2.6 at the end of r2.5

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@NickDraper (2013-07-26T13:54:59):
Moved to backlog at the code freeze for R2.6

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@NickDraper (2014-02-14T11:04:56):
Bulk move to assigned at the introduction of the triage step