JAL-2526 test and documentation for SeqPanel.setStatus behaviour needed to fix bug...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / appletgui / SeqPanel.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/appletgui/SeqPanel.java b/src/jalview/appletgui/SeqPanel.java
index d46cc34..f58f420 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/appletgui/SeqPanel.java
+++ b/src/jalview/appletgui/SeqPanel.java
@@ -412,13 +412,13 @@ public class SeqPanel extends Panel implements MouseMotionListener,
    * 
    * @param sequence
    *          aligned sequence object
-   * @param res
+   * @param column
    *          alignment column
    * @param seq
    *          index of sequence in alignment
-   * @return position of res in sequence
+   * @return position of column in sequence or -1 if at gap
    */
-  void setStatusMessage(SequenceI sequence, int res, int seq)
+  void setStatusMessage(SequenceI sequence, int column, int seq)
   {
     // TODO remove duplication of identical gui method
     StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder(32);
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ public class SeqPanel extends Panel implements MouseMotionListener,
     /*
      * Try to translate the display character to residue name (null for gap).
      */
-    final String displayChar = String.valueOf(sequence.getCharAt(res));
+    final String displayChar = String.valueOf(sequence.getCharAt(column));
     if (av.getAlignment().isNucleotide())
     {
       residue = ResidueProperties.nucleotideName.get(displayChar);
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ public class SeqPanel extends Panel implements MouseMotionListener,
     int pos = -1;
     if (residue != null)
     {
-      pos = sequence.findPosition(res);
+      pos = sequence.findPosition(column);
       text.append(" (").append(Integer.toString(pos)).append(")");
     }