From: Jim Procter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:57:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JAL-381 Desktop.addInternalFrame cannot be called in headless mode
X-Git-Tag: Jalview_2_9~249^2~10
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b8a88837ea01a9c6cfdde8bfa160d646eae5dbfe;p=jalview.git

JAL-381 Desktop.addInternalFrame cannot be called in headless mode
---

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java b/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java
index 975a1a3..6f07b69 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/FileLoader.java
@@ -322,9 +322,14 @@ public class FileLoader implements Runnable
 
             if (!protocol.equals(AppletFormatAdapter.PASTE))
               alignFrame.setFileName(file, format);
-
-            Desktop.addInternalFrame(alignFrame, title,
-                    AlignFrame.DEFAULT_WIDTH, AlignFrame.DEFAULT_HEIGHT);
+            if (raiseGUI)
+            {
+              // add the window to the GUI
+              // note - this actually should happen regardless of raiseGUI status in Jalview 3
+              // TODO: define 'virtual desktop' for benefit of headless scripts that perform queries to find the 'current working alignment'
+              Desktop.addInternalFrame(alignFrame, title,
+                      AlignFrame.DEFAULT_WIDTH, AlignFrame.DEFAULT_HEIGHT);
+            }
 
             try
             {