Emergency impending hard drive failure dump - lots of changes on the frontend, but they're all potentially controversial so I'm not pushing to master yet. Beginnings of show viewer. Application now run through demo menu, which allows for the links between modules to be tested.

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+/**
+ * 
+ */
+package uk.org.ury.frontend;
+
+
+/**
+ * Abstract class for frontend module control panels.
+ * 
+ * Control panels are installed as a means of exposing module 
+ * intercommunication to the user.  For example, when the library 
+ * viewer is launched from the playout module, a control panel 
+ * is installed allowing the user to add library items to the 
+ * playout system.
+ * 
+ * @author  Matt Windsor
+ */
+
+public abstract class FrontendControlPanel extends FrontendPanel
+{
+  /**
+   * 
+   */
+  private static final long serialVersionUID = -5628250552779928189L;
+  
+  protected FrontendControlPanel prevCPanel;
+  protected FrontendModulePanel parent;
+  protected FrontendModulePanel child;
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * Alternative constructor allowing an XML file to be used to 
+   * create the layout of the ControlPanel.
+   * 
+   * This is provided for the benefit of subclasses of this class 
+   * that use it in their default constructors.
+   *
+   * @param xmlPath  The path, relative from this source file, to the
+   *                 XML file from which this panel will read its 
+   *                 layout.
+   */
+     
+  public
+  FrontendControlPanel (String xmlPath)
+  {
+     super (xmlPath, null);
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Set the frontend master to which this panel is bound.
+   * 
+   * @param master  The master to set.
+   */
+  
+  public void
+  setMaster (FrontendMaster master)
+  {
+    this.master = master;
+  }
+  
+  
+  /**
+   * Set the parent and child panels that this ControlPanel 
+   * facilitates intercommunication.
+   * 
+   * @param parent  The panel belonging to the parent module, 
+   *                or the module that was switched out in place of 
+   *                the child.
+   *                
+   * @param child   The panel belonging to the child module,
+   *                or the module that was switched in in place of
+   *                the parent.
+   */
+
+  public void
+  setPanels (FrontendModulePanel parent, FrontendModulePanel child)
+  {
+    this.parent = parent;
+    this.child = child;
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Set the previous control panel (if any), so that it can be 
+   * restored when this control panel returns control to the 
+   * parent.
+   * 
+   * @param cpanel  The previous control panel.
+   */
+  
+  public void
+  setPreviousCPanel (FrontendControlPanel cpanel)
+  {
+    prevCPanel = cpanel;
+  }
+}