JAXB marshalling by JavaScript successfully unmarshalled in Java

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / io / FileLoader.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java b/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java
index 390e8cd..f244d14 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java
@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ public class FileLoader implements Runnable
                   "IMPLEMENTATION ERROR: Cannot read consecutive Jalview XML projects from a stream.");
           // We read the data anyway - it might make sense.
         }
-        alignFrame = new Jalview2XML(raiseGUI).loadJalviewAlign(file);
+        // BH 2018 switch to File object here instead of filename
+        alignFrame = new Jalview2XML(raiseGUI).loadJalviewAlign(selectedFile == null ? file : selectedFile);
       }
       else
       {