publicly accessible flag to indicate if a registry query thread is in progress

diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/DasSourceBrowser.java b/src/jalview/gui/DasSourceBrowser.java
index d6c0247..09c8a3e 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/gui/DasSourceBrowser.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/DasSourceBrowser.java
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ public class DasSourceBrowser
   public static String DEFAULT_REGISTRY =\r
       "http://www.dasregistry.org/das1/sources/";\r
 \r
-  boolean loadingDasSources = false;\r
+  /**\r
+   * true if thread is running and we are talking to DAS registry service\r
+   */\r
+  public boolean loadingDasSources = false;\r
 \r
   public DasSourceBrowser()\r
   {\r