[Biojava-l] MultiLineRenderer amd SequencePoster

[Thomas Down]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:06:18PM +0100, Dr S.M. Huen wrote:
> There seem to be two very similar classes in org.biojava.bio.gui.sequence.
> 
> Are there any guidelines as to when each is to be used or will one be
> deprecated eventually?

They're for different purposes.  MultiLineRenderer wraps up
a list of renderers (e.g. a SymbolRenderer, a FeatureBlockRenderer,
and a RulerRenderer) as a single renderer, allowing you to build
multi-track displays.

SequencePoster is old code (which may well need a bit of refactoring
by now) for drawing sequence views with a `line wrap' effect.  The
use of `line' both for rendering tracks and for line wrapped sequences
is a bit confusing -- maybe we should move towards using `track' 
exclusively for the former case.