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Improving UI handling of Signal Operations

Robert M. O'Bara requested to merge bob.obara/smtk:changingQtAttributeViewSignalOpProcessing into master

Originally the qtAttributeView class would ignore the Signal Operation since typically it would be the only Qt UI element that would be creating, removing, and changing the Attributes it is displaying. However, this prevented the UI designer from having AttributeViews that displayed the same information from being used in Selector Views or have different AttributeViews overlap their contents (for example one View could be displaying Fluid Boundary Conditions, while another was displaying all Boundary Conditions)

This change now encodes the address of the View that initiated the change so that we can avoid a View from being updated via a Signal Operation that it itself initiated.

qtAttributeView has now been updated to only ignore Signal Operations that it triggered.

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