[maxmsp] max 5 new patcher preferences, grid and more

f.e schrieb:
> Sorry Chris (and the others). I guess i failed to explain my problem...
> 
> I'll do another try : If i resize an object like *~, it should resize 
> accordingly to the grid and the flonum i would like to connect to the 
> 2nd inlet should be located on the grid as well, so the connection 
> should be right. But it's never happening and i have to do a "align 
> connections" which doesn't align things on the grid, but do some dark 
> art mess in order to make things match. Means we're always messing 
> "good" grid alignment with "floating" alignment and when dozen objects 
> are involved and you move one, you find yourself in a deep s..t
> 
> I guess it's still unclear, so nevermind :-)

The only solution is to set your grid exactly to twice the distance from 
in/oulet to the border of the object...
(would only work with the same font size for all objects...)

Or just give up on being rigrid... could be rewarding...

(I am not rigrid enough to test my thesis actually...)

And think about it, if nobody told you about a grid, you wouldn't have a 
problem...

It wasn't different in Max 4 actually, you can't align right and left 
side to the same grid and expect the cords to be straight, unless your 
grid is exactly twice the distance between cord and border of the 
object. Your Max 4 grid had to be much smaller than a Max 5 grid...

The main problem seems, that the distance from in/oulet is linked to the 
roundness, maybe you can convince David Z. to make it always the same... 
(To allow rigrid patching with object boxes and numbers at the same time 
f.e...)

Stefan

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