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

On 5 mai 08, at 23:13, f.e wrote:

> I understand this is a Cornelian problem. Nevertheless, it makes the  
> grid pretty useless, indeed. Disableing / ableing the grid in order  
> to align manually some objects with others that were aligned  
> automatically makes no sense. At the end, your patch doesn't follow  
> any rule (or any real grid should i say), and you often have to drag  
> a bunch of objects away to then drag them back to be able to align  
> them again with another bunch of objects which were aligned before  
> etc.


Grid and Snap to Grid are also useful to position objects for  
presentation mode where there's even not visible connections.

ej