ivanreshe

Something that has always bugged me, but I never asked :s

How can I extend the working screen? What I have to do right now is copy an object, then paste it out of the screen, then scroll into the new space - and repeat until I have enough room. Doesn't sound quite right!!

very-beginner-question-about-extending-the-screen

In max 5 there's the zooming out. In my case the screen size has always been the clipping factor to the size of the patches I created. That is possible by hiding enough mess in subpatches. Probably you know that from Rembrandt's masterpiece The Night Watch parts were cut of in order to make the canvas fit between two columns. I perfectly understand the man with the knife. Parts of a patch sticking out the screen is just so messy. Of course, in 1715 they did not yet have scrolling.

You can decrease the default font size and grid size from the preferences menu (apple,).

You can also zoom in and out using apple=/+ and apple-/_

And there is the zoom box on the bottom of the patcher screen which gives you an overview of the entire patch to navigate around.

Something that occasionally bugs me though is if you have a precisely arranged interface with things overlapping in the exact right place, zooming in and out makes them appear to change position slightly.

But, if you need an interface to be smaller, you can select all the items and choose scale from the edit menu, then dragging to resize changes all the attributes to keep them in the same configuration.

Something that occasionally bugs me though is if you have a precisely arranged interface with things overlapping in the exact right place, zooming in and out makes them appear to change position slightly.  

But, if you need an interface to be smaller, you can select all the items and choose scale from the edit menu, then dragging to resize changes all the attributes to keep them in the same configuration.


Very "beginner" question about extending the screen