From 7e1770e6de8e4cb62329b5d40346c7403e92696c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:05:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] null exception when annotation created with no description.

---
 src/jalview/gui/AnnotationLabels.java |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/AnnotationLabels.java b/src/jalview/gui/AnnotationLabels.java
index 81a3cd2..9590d80 100755
--- a/src/jalview/gui/AnnotationLabels.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/AnnotationLabels.java
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ public class AnnotationLabels
     annotation.label = dialog.getName();
 
     String text = dialog.getDescription();
-    if (text.length() == 0)
+    if (text!=null && text.length() == 0)
     {
       text = null;
     }
-- 
1.7.10.2