From b3f66e3a4fd8d3f24a5a44f8716a41c84c4d1cb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <Jim Procter>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 17:21:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fairly pointless catch exception error information added.
 (attempt to catch case when a parse() call breaks in an
 unexpected fashion...)

---
 src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java |   10 ++++++++--
 src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java  |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java b/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java
index 0484bdd..dba0c61 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/FormatAdapter.java
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ public class FormatAdapter
 
       return afile.getSeqsAsArray();
     }
-    catch (Exception e)  {}
+    catch (Exception e)  {
+    System.err.println("Failed to read alignment using the '"+format+"' reader.");
+    e.printStackTrace();
+    }
 
     return null;
   }
@@ -68,7 +71,10 @@ public class FormatAdapter
       afile.setSeqs(s);
       return afile.print();
     }
-    catch (Exception e)  {}
+    catch (Exception e)  {
+      System.err.println("Failed to write alignment as a '"+format+"' file\n");
+      e.printStackTrace();
+    }
 
     return null;
   }
diff --git a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
index 18e1a6a..55d771b 100755
--- a/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
+++ b/src/jalview/io/IdentifyFile.java
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ public class IdentifyFile
       }
       reader.close();
     }
-    catch(Exception ex){ex.printStackTrace();}
+    catch(Exception ex){
+      System.err.println("File Identification failed!"); ex.printStackTrace();}
 
     return reply;
   }
-- 
1.7.10.2