[Biojava-l] Refactoring gui.sequence

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi all,

I am in the middle of refactoring the sequene rendering code. The most 
important changes will be the addition of a SequenceRenderer 
implementation that renders a list of other renderers, and a GUI 
component that renders a portion of a sequence from a start to an end 
index at a given zoom with a renderer. Using this, we can implement the 
single-line version of SequencePanel. By adding multiple instances of 
this class to a JPanel we can implement the multi-line SequencePanel 
display. By wireing in clever star/stop/zoom semantics we can build all 
sorts of interesting behaviors.

SequencePanel will still be supported (in the short term at least), but 
if you look inside it, you will see that it is a pig to maintain, and 
not that flexible.

Does anybody else use this package at the moment? Any comments, likes, 
dislikes? One thing the package totaly lacks is any behavior (mouse 
responsiveness). I have no idea how to plug this in. All ideas welcome.

The new hierachial ChangeType objects are so cool, I can't imagine 
living without them any more (and that after just 1 day). Events rock!

Matthew