a very simple question

mkap7

Hi folks....I'm a new and very excited MAX user. What a cool program!

I have a very simple question that haven't been able to answer from the documentation - how can I resize the radio button object? Seems different than the other similar elements in that it can't be resized in the usual way, by just grabbing the corner of a bounding box. It stretches in the horizontal dimension only - the height, and the buttons, stay the same. Is there a way to do this without creating a whole new button with its own image file?

Thanks!
-mk

Peter Ostry

Radiobuttons are not scalable. You can extend the sensitive area to the right to allow clicking on text beside the buttons. But you cannot change the size of the buttons and you cannot have them horizontally.
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One column of [matrixctrl] would be an option. It is sizeable but requires some processing to work as a radiogroup. See example below (original patch in this forum, Ben Bracken, 2009).

Max Patch

Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

mkap7

Thanks, I suspected that this might be the case. I'll have a look at that patcher and see if I can figure it out. (It occurs to me that another workaround would be to make everything else around the radio button smaller, and then view the entire patcher at a higher magnification.)