JAL-4124 decouple mappable contact matrix mapping logic from underlying contact matri...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / datamodel / ContactMatrixI.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/ContactMatrixI.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/ContactMatrixI.java
index 925025f..4261519 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/ContactMatrixI.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/ContactMatrixI.java
@@ -199,5 +199,17 @@ public interface ContactMatrixI
     }
     return Color.white;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * direct access to column and row position of matrix
+   
+   * Implementations are allowed to throw
+   * RunTimeExceptions if _column/i are out of bounds
+   * 
+   * @param column
+   * @param row
+   * @return
+   */
+  double getElementAt(int column, int row);
   
 }