Re: [GMOD-devel] How to update most-recent list in Apollo?

[Scott C. <ca...@cs...>]

Hi Alok,

You should ask this question on the Apollo mailing list--you can find
information on it at

 http://mail.fruitfly.org/mailman/listinfo/apollo

Thanks,
Scott


On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 01:24, Alok Saldanha wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My apologies if this email is giant and looks like crap in your mail 
> reader, I just want to give all relevant info. I'm doing a lot of 
> high-throughput noncoding sequence analysis, and I've decided to use 
> Apollo as the visualization tool for the reams of GFF that I generate. 
> I've been generating a ream for each of about 150 genes that I'm 
> interested in, and I wanted a fast way to switch through them, e.g. I 
> wanted a file listing that I could click on to quickly switch between 
> them in apollo like this:
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
>   so I wrote the following fast switcher class (apollo.gui.FastSwitcher):
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> to the credit of apollo's clean design, this only required the 
> following code changes to apollo.gui.menus.FileMenu:
> 
> diff -rw apollo/src/java/apollo/gui/menus/FileMenu.java 
> pristine/apollo/src/java/apollo/gui/menus/FileMenu.java
> 29d28
> <       JMenuItem               fastSwitcher;
> 80d78
> <               fastSwitcher = new JMenuItem("Fast Switcher...");
> 96d93
> <               fastSwitcher.addActionListener(this);
> 129c126
> <               add(fastSwitcher);
> ---
>  >
> 320,321d316
> <     } else if (e.getSource() == fastSwitcher) {
> <                       showFastSwitcher();
> 390,398c385
> <       JDialog switcherDialog;
> <       private void showFastSwitcher() {
> <               if (switcherDialog == null) {
> <                       switcherDialog = new JDialog(frame, 
> "FastSwitcher", false);
> <                       switcherDialog.getContentPane().add(new 
> FastSwitcher(frame));
> <                       switcherDialog.pack();
> <               }
> <               switcherDialog.show();
> <       }
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Anyways, the only problem is that the most-recently-used files are not 
> updated by the switches that FastSwitcher triggers. Can anyone help me 
> fix this? Also, is there interest in (generalized for other formats 
> perhaps) and including it in the stock Apollo distro?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alok
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