JAL-3032 refine 'empty status message' test (JS issue 179)

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / gui / AlignFrame.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java b/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
index 8f7b61b..340f9be 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ public class AlignFrame extends GAlignFrame implements DropTargetListener,
          // In JavaScript, we use \u00A0  -- unicode "non-breaking space"
          // which is the unicode encoding of  
          
-    statusBar.setText(text.length() == 0 ? " " : text);
+    statusBar.setText(text == null || text.isEmpty() ? " " : text);
   }
 
   /*