<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>It is quite literally a horizontal line drawn to represent an anchor in editmode that you can click and drag to change the width of the comment. It certainly does look exactly like a pipe character, is confusing, and has no relationship with any of the widget behaviors of modern gui toolkits.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>It could also just as easily be a dashed box around the comment, which would be
less confusing, more obvious, and have no significant performance hit over a vertical line.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Jonathan<br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:45 PM, Peter P. <p8rpp@aol.com> wrote:<br> </font>
</div> <div class="y_msg_container">Hi, I am on Pd-0.45.0 vanilla compiled from Miller's git sources on<br>Linux with Tcl/Tk 8.5.0-2.1<br><br>When I insert a comment into a patch, there is always a trailing |<br>(pipe) character (perhaps some sort of a cursor), that remains<br>visible, also after clicking on the canvas background to end editing<br>the comment. Upon file save, close, and re-open the | is gone, until I<br>enter Edit mode.<br><br>Does anyone else experience this?<br><br>best, P<br><br>_______________________________________________<br><a ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>