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

On May 5, 2008, at 2:13 PM, 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.


There are really quite a few cool new patch organization methods in  
Max 5:
- Presentation mode
- Align connections
- Scale space

The fact that the grid stuff does not live up to your expectations is  
too bad, but why not get on with using the stuff that _is_ there?

To my way of thinking, things are _so_ much better in Max 5 than they  
were in Max 4, that I'm happy to use Max 5 for a long while before I  
start complaining about all the stuff I want to see in Max 6.

-C

Chris Muir
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