From: Jim Procter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:52:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JAL-1312 more helpful error message when translation breaks
X-Git-Tag: Jalview_2_9~240^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5162c81c20d1da22a7eac533126d074d654ef09;p=jalview.git

JAL-1312 more helpful error message when translation breaks
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diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java b/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
index 77c3b6a..ceb08ee 100755
--- a/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/AlignFrame.java
@@ -4603,7 +4603,13 @@ public class AlignFrame extends GAlignFrame implements DropTargetListener,
     } catch (Exception ex)
     {
       al = null;
-      jalview.bin.Cache.log.debug("Exception during translation.", ex);
+      jalview.bin.Cache.log.error("Exception during translation. Please report this !", ex);
+      JOptionPane
+      .showMessageDialog(
+              Desktop.desktop,
+              "Unfortunately, something went wrong when translating your sequences.\nPlease take a look in the Jalview java console\nand submit a bug report including the stacktrace.",
+              "Implementation error: Translation Failed", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
+      return;
     }
     if (al == null)
     {