It was not possible to call any of the functions of AutomationEditor
from threads other than the main GUI thread as the m_pattern pointer
was not protected by a mutex. It is however desired to be able to call
for example AutomationEditor::setCurrentPattern(...) from different
threads (mainly required when deleting AutomationPatterns in other
threads). Thus made this method and all accesses to the m_pattern
pointer thread-safe.