[WIP] Macro nodes

[ales-erjavec]

Issue

Need macro node support

Changes

Add macro node functionality - hierarchical sub-workflows.

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[borondics]

@ales-erjavec, this is a very nice addition, can't wait to be available in the released version - my colleagues build brutally large workflows sometimes.

One thing to keep in mind could be to limit the depth of levels a user can create so that it doesn't get out of hand like LabView. :)

[borondics]

A suggestion: the parent canvas display should show if in the child canvas the input or output are disconnected.

Here we can only see that the last widget doesn't receive data, but no indication of why.

And the corresponding child node:

I suggest putting the little exclamation sign either at the input shield (input not connected inside the node), on top of the Macro node widget/icon (problem somewhere inside) or the output shield (output not connected inside).

[borondics]

Another observation about output connections and labeling:
This workflow can be added to a Macro node.

Resulting in this:

Inside the node:

Notice that in the expanded workflow there are 3 connections, which are nicely preserved after creating the Macro node but once opening the node one connection gets lost.

For naming: Could the data channel labels say something about the outside/inside world? What I mean, instead of Data (1) on the inside could we indicate the name and channel of the widget that channel represents? In this case it could be "File/Data". Same would be nice when exiting the node, which in this case would be "Data Table / Selected Data".

Finally, it seems that currently, after creating the node, the node inputs/outputs can't be changed, so for example if I open the node and try to connect "Data Table (2)" to "Selected Data (1)" the new connection replaces the original "Data Table"->"Selected Data (1)" channel instead of adding a new one. This should be dependent on whether the widget on the outside of the node can receive multiple channels and then the question should be which input the new channel should be connected to.

I see that this must be difficult to handle, just giving my thoughts here.

[stuart-cls]

Looking nice! I found a small layout glitch when replacing a double input with a macro node (as @borondics showed above), the two inputs are positioned at the same point:

I had to merge with the latest master, there are some conflicts with the code to reduce (Copy) in widget titles from #310

[borondics]

I'm glad this branch is getting some interest. :) It seems that there are not too many issues in the tests (unless the first one invalidates all the others), so maybe we can expect this to be merged some time soon? I've been talking to users and potential users who are very intested in having a feature like this.