Summary of problem description

mitkMaterialProperty became obsolete.

surfaces can now have a variable number of properties (depending on bound shaders), and mitkMaterialProperty would have to manage a propertylist, but the mitkMaterialProperty is already itself a member of such a list.

additionally its concept of aliasing its attributes into the propertylist of the associated node is no longer maintainable.

mitkMaterialProperty is used in the old QT3 MaterialEditior, which also became obsolete, and has already an QT4-equivalent with shader support (though not the complete functionality)

it is also used in the vesseltreelookup classes, in a map from vessel label to a material.

in all other cases there is no real usage of the mitkMaterialProperty except setting a member, like representation mode (filled/wireframe).

the material attributes are replaced as standard datanode color&float properties:

color
material.ambientColor
material.diffuseColor
material.specularColor
material.wireframeLineWidth
material.ambientCoefficient
material.diffuseCoefficient
material.specularCoefficient
material.specularPower
material.representation
material.interpolation

Cause of the bug

mitkMaterialProperty became outdated

Proposed solution

remove any reference to mitkMaterialProperty from the complete svn, except in the vesseltreelookup tables

reintegrate all members of mitkMaterialProperty as standard datanode properties.

rename mitkMaterialProperty to mitkMaterial (and remove inheritance from BaseProperty), so that it can be still used as a material container class for the vesseltreelookup tables.