Can I get rid of the runtime window in Windows standalones?

dhk's icon

Can I?

I hope I can, because it looks kind of ugly and unprofessional with the extra, unnecessary window frame and title bar.

Michael Duffy's icon

yes - look at thispatcher.

On 3/9/07, Dag Henning Kalvøy wrote:
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> Can I?
>
> I hope I can, because it looks kind of ugly and unprofessional with the extra, unnecessary
>window frame and title bar.
>

dhk's icon

Thanks for the response.

I'm sorry that I don't understand you, or maybe you didn't understand me? I am already using thispatcher for various window settings, but thispatcher controls the _patcher_ window, not the runtime window, right? I can loose the title bar and frame of the patcher at best, but I'm still stuck with the grey runtime background window. Unless you tell me how to get rid of it, that is :) The reference manual doesn't mention it anyway, as far as I'm aware of.

The program has settings which resize the patcher window, so even if I set the runtime window to fit the patcher, it won't follow the patcher. Again - unless you tell me how.

I'm a mac man, so maybe this question is stupid because it's so obvious that the runtime window must be there. I do not know, therefore I ask.

_j's icon

look at the object "thispatcher"'s help file. like he said.

dhk's icon

Thank you for the help.

Could you please also help me find exactly _where_ in the help file controlling the runtime window is explained? I seem to be unusually slow today.

As a demonstration of the dilemma, here come two patches and two compiled applications, one of each optimized for Mac (working perfectly), the others for Windows (not looking good because of the runtime background window).

Mac patch first:

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Then slightly optimized (the best i could) for Windows:

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Just to make sure everybody gets my point: I would like to get rid of the grey Max Runtime window, so the only thing I see is the full green panel. (Never mind the white Max window, I know how to quit that.)

dhk's icon

oops. Couldn't upload the zipped mac app, it is too big. Here's the Windows app, anyway.

ingo's icon

interesting, i work on the same issue right now, (check the topic: windows windowing question)

i try to get rid of this behaviour to maximize the patcher window, in the application window...
look at the appended patch.

what i want to do then, is to lock the applications window size (if possible)

greets
ingo

_j's icon

send thispatcher a "fullscreen 1" message.

Andrew Pask's icon

It's called the MDI frame and you can't get rid of it with MaxMSP.

Your best bet if you really can't stand it is to go full screen.

-A

ingo's icon

dan pointed me to this thread, take a look.

the thing you maybe need is wmangle from thomas grill...

greets
ingo

_j's icon

you can also try ;max hidemenubar

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_j's icon

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