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

I'm not complaining.

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Chris Muir a écrit :
> 
> 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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