From c39e588784c0fbb64c7dabfcae8db4faedde10e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: amwaterhouse <Andrew Waterhouse>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:17:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Destroy aligment method added

---
 src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java  |   13 +++++++++++++
 src/jalview/datamodel/AlignmentI.java |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java
index e8787f4..ddb58c3 100755
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/Alignment.java
@@ -182,6 +182,19 @@ public class Alignment
     return groups;
   }
 
+  public void destroyAlignment()
+  {
+    if(getDataset()!=null)
+      getDataset().destroyAlignment();
+
+    dataset = null;
+    sequences = null;
+    groups = null;
+    annotations = null;
+    hiddenSequences = null;
+  }
+
+
   /**
    * DOCUMENT ME!
    *
diff --git a/src/jalview/datamodel/AlignmentI.java b/src/jalview/datamodel/AlignmentI.java
index a81a965..3e9e265 100755
--- a/src/jalview/datamodel/AlignmentI.java
+++ b/src/jalview/datamodel/AlignmentI.java
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ public interface AlignmentI
    */
   public Vector getGroups();
 
+  public void destroyAlignment();
+
   /**
    * Deletes all groups from this alignment.
    */
-- 
1.7.10.2