From: hansonr <hansonr@STO24954W.ad.stolaf.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 05:33:45 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: comment added in relation to status bar
X-Git-Tag: Release_2_11_4_0~45^2~18^2~327
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d80f1e36b72435aa94d9de8811eb43e184eb435c;p=jalview.git

comment added in relation to status bar
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diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java b/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
index 7183f7f..8f7b61b 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
@@ -992,7 +992,12 @@ public class AlignFrame extends GAlignFrame implements DropTargetListener,
   @Override
   public void setStatus(String text)
   {
-    statusBar.setText(text);
+	  // BH note: If text width and height are 0, then the layout manager
+	  // will dispense of it and change the frame height. 
+	  // In JavaScript, we use \u00A0  -- unicode "non-breaking space"
+	  // which is the unicode encoding of &nbsp;
+	  
+    statusBar.setText(text.length() == 0 ? " " : text);
   }
 
   /*