Automatic colors
I have taken to using colors to represent different aspects of my patchers. For example, source devices are green, control surfaces are blue, MIDI processors are pale green, vsts (wrapped) are red. All of these things are wrapped inside abstractions.
I'd like to be able to create a new message object in a patcher, give it the name of one of my abstractions, and have the border of that object be displayed in the correct color when it gets instantiated.
Can this be done?
yes, it seems that this is still not possible in max 13 years later unfortunately. it kind of sucks that a software meant for designing complex audio systems wouldn't permit such basic automation.