From c8feb125d3a159bcf5a7fe196fb1b886a46e5b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:56:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allow the display character below a graph to be explicitly
 set to the empty string

---
 src/jalview/io/AnnotationFile.java |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/AnnotationFile.java b/src/jalview/io/AnnotationFile.java
index 7f71df1..4c38bd2 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/AnnotationFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/AnnotationFile.java
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ public class AnnotationFile
     String desc = null, displayChar = null;
     char ss = ' '; // secondaryStructure
     float value = 0;
-    boolean parsedValue = false;
+    boolean parsedValue = false,dcset=false;
 
     // find colour here
     java.awt.Color colour = null;
@@ -647,6 +647,12 @@ public class AnnotationFile
       token = st.nextToken().trim();
       if (token.length() == 0)
       {
+        if (parsedValue && !dcset)
+        {
+          // allow the value below the bar/line to be empty
+          dcset=true;
+          displayChar = "";
+        }
         continue;
       }
 
-- 
1.7.10.2