JAL-2034 moved ‘isDefinedGroup’ flag to a test method on AlignViewportI so controller...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / api / AlignViewportI.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/api/AlignViewportI.java b/src/jalview/api/AlignViewportI.java
index 9d5c075..df57cc0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/api/AlignViewportI.java
+++ b/src/jalview/api/AlignViewportI.java
@@ -235,21 +235,27 @@ public interface AlignViewportI extends ViewStyleI
    * This method returns the visible alignment as text, as seen on the GUI, ie
    * if columns are hidden they will not be returned in the result. Use this for
    * calculating trees, PCA, redundancy etc on views which contain hidden
-   * columns.
-   * 
+   * columns. This method doesn't exclude hidden sequences from the output.
+   *
+   * @param selectedRegionOnly
+   *          - determines if only the selected region or entire alignment is
+   *          exported
    * @return String[]
    */
   String[] getViewAsString(boolean selectedRegionOnly);
   
   /**
    * This method returns the visible alignment as text, as seen on the GUI, ie
-   * if columns are hidden they will not be returned in the result. However, If
-   * there are hidden sequences, isExportHiddenSeqs flag decides if they would
-   * be exported or not. Use this for calculating trees, PCA, redundancy etc on
-   * views which contain hidden columns.
+   * if columns are hidden they will not be returned in the result. Use this for
+   * calculating trees, PCA, redundancy etc on views which contain hidden
+   * columns.
    * 
    * @param selectedRegionOnly
+   *          - determines if only the selected region or entire alignment is
+   *          exported
    * @param isExportHiddenSeqs
+   *          - determines if hidden sequences would be exported or not.
+   * 
    * @return String[]
    */
   String[] getViewAsString(boolean selectedRegionOnly, boolean isExportHiddenSeqs);
@@ -391,4 +397,12 @@ public interface AlignViewportI extends ViewStyleI
 
 
   public void applyFeaturesStyle(FeatureSettingsModelI featureSettings);
+
+  /**
+   * check if current selection group is defined on the view, or is simply a
+   * temporary group.
+   * 
+   * @return true if group is defined on the alignment
+   */
+  boolean isSelectionDefinedGroup();
 }