fairly pointless catch exception error information added. (attempt to

catch case when a parse() call breaks in an unexpected fashion...)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java b/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java
index 0484bdd..dba0c61 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ public class FormatAdapter
 \r
       return afile.getSeqsAsArray();\r
     }\r
-    catch (Exception e)  {}\r
+    catch (Exception e)  {\r
+    System.err.println("Failed to read alignment using the '"+format+"' reader.");\r
+    e.printStackTrace();\r
+    }\r
 \r
     return null;\r
   }\r
@@ -68,7 +71,10 @@ public class FormatAdapter
       afile.setSeqs(s);\r
       return afile.print();\r
     }\r
-    catch (Exception e)  {}\r
+    catch (Exception e)  {\r
+      System.err.println("Failed to write alignment as a '"+format+"' file\n");\r
+      e.printStackTrace();\r
+    }\r
 \r
     return null;\r
   }\r

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
index 18e1a6a..55d771b 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ public class IdentifyFile
       }\r
       reader.close();\r
     }\r
-    catch(Exception ex){ex.printStackTrace();}\r
+    catch(Exception ex){\r
+      System.err.println("File Identification failed!"); ex.printStackTrace();}\r
 \r
     return reply;\r
   }\r