From: Jim Procter <jprocter@issues.jalview.org>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:28:24 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JAL-2507 Annotation.EMPTY_ANNOTATION - non-null whitespace annotation
X-Git-Tag: Release_2_10_2~3^2~88^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc9096e49533361ffb654d08d65ee21129eb3875;p=jalview.git

JAL-2507 Annotation.EMPTY_ANNOTATION - non-null whitespace annotation
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diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/Annotation.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/Annotation.java
index 71ebbb3..fc8688c 100755
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/Annotation.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/Annotation.java
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ import java.awt.Color;
  */
 public class Annotation
 {
+  /**
+   * the empty annotation - proxy for null entries in annotation row
+   */
+  public static final Annotation EMPTY_ANNOTATION = new Annotation("", "",
+          ' ', 0f);
+
   /** Character label - also shown below histogram */
   public String displayCharacter = "";