From ca03475c238445cb80495c117fee9e508d5f6985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jprocter <jprocter@compbio.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:51:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-1254 patch for NPE in annotation renderer when no
 annotations shown in alignment.

---
 src/jalview/renderer/AnnotationRenderer.java |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/jalview/renderer/AnnotationRenderer.java b/src/jalview/renderer/AnnotationRenderer.java
index 7ab7fda..ab27d8a 100644
--- a/src/jalview/renderer/AnnotationRenderer.java
+++ b/src/jalview/renderer/AnnotationRenderer.java
@@ -257,7 +257,10 @@ public class AnnotationRenderer
     updateFromAwtRenderPanel(annotPanel, av);
     fm = g.getFontMetrics();
     AlignmentAnnotation[] aa = av.getAlignment().getAlignmentAnnotation();
-
+    if (aa==null)
+    {
+      return false;
+    }
     int x = 0, y = 0;
     int column = 0;
     char lastSS;
-- 
1.7.10.2