[Jalview-discuss] Edit Sequence Name/Description crash

[Jim Procter]

Hi Eric, once again. Sorry for the confusion - the real reply to your 
email is below:
On 19/10/2010 22:22, Polinko, Eric wrote:
> I'm wondering if a small bug in Jalview could be fixed that tends to 
> frustrate the heck out of our new users.
>
> The bug seems to be specific to the Mac-platform, and can be easily 
> replicated by:
>
>    1. Right clicking on any sequence label
>    2. [Sequence Name] ==> Edit Name/Description
>
>
>     In the resulting window, the Sequence Name section is highlighted
>     in blue - if one attempts to click & drag this blue-highlighted
>     section ==> the program will freeze with the spinning wheel of death.
>
>
> We realize that no-one would actually want to drag/drop this text, but 
> unfortunately it is very easy to accidently perform this action when 
> solely trying to edit the sequence name.
Ah - yes, it's a bit of a show stopper. I actually noticed it back in 
May but as yet, haven't had the chance to hunt the cause down (see the 
bug report here: http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-530 ).

I will probably try to address this again when that dialog box is 
extended to support easier editing of other attributes (start/end, etc), 
but for the moment, if there are any OSX/Java developers out there who'd 
like to help out, then they'd be very welcome!

Jim.

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