From: Ben Soares <b.soares@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 23:28:24 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JAL-3991 Added information output about the slightly alarming 'WARNING: An illegal... 
X-Git-Tag: Release_2_11_2_6~28^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7190c3c673890ea5d282b36ac89a7b15be522206;hp=7dcec14f584c3b4fc95e316e3d91e7d452889e5c;p=jalview.git

JAL-3991 Added information output about the slightly alarming 'WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred' error that occurs for linux users.  It can't be avoided so informing the user should help with alarm levels.
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diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java b/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
index aeb0fac..5b0d45a 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
  */
 package jalview.gui;
 
-import java.util.Locale;
-
 import java.awt.BorderLayout;
 import java.awt.Color;
 import java.awt.Dimension;
@@ -64,6 +62,7 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.ListIterator;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Vector;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
@@ -414,6 +413,8 @@ public class Desktop extends jalview.jbgui.GDesktop
      */
     if (Platform.isLinux())
     {
+      jalview.bin.Console.info(
+              "Linux platform only! You may have the following warning next: \"WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred\"\nThis is expected and cannot be avoided, sorry about that.");
       try
       {
         Toolkit xToolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();