Max is very “helpful” when I’m writing. For example, I’d like my coming super-app to flash “version 1.0″, but Max insists there’s no need for a zero after the dot. I insist there is, but Max has his own will…

Worse: any decent mac application (like those I’m building) should have their Preferences available by the shortcut ?, (apple-comma). Well, try typing /, in the menubar object at the end of a line, activate the menubar (works fine), save+close the patch, open again, activate menubar – doesn’t work (backslash and comma gone).

Sometimes I *do* know what I want, even though Max thinks he knows better. Can anyone help me get my will?

Yeah I know, I’m very concerned about my looks! Certainly more so than Max is. Especially when making things that other people will use, the user experience is important.

Ultimately, I’d like to have a lot more control over the menu bar than the menubar object offers. For example, the mac convention says that Preferences should be located in the Application menu, beneath the “about…” item, and I’d like to be able to put it there. And my apps have some window management options which really belong to the Window menu, but I have no access to that menu.

Some other purely cosmethic items on my wishlist: (Better) anti-aliasing for text and stock graphics, and real alpha channel support for pics (grayscale, allowing opacity gradients). Alignment choices for number boxes, and OS-specific menu styles. But I know I may be among the very few maxers concerned about such things. Then again, I should probably get over it and learn Java, that might help a little.

i’m pretty sure that alpha channel support for pics, will be one of the improvements in max version 5.0…i read it in a prevoius thread ;)