I too would love to stop that feature. It is causing a lot of trouble while editing very dense patches created in Max 6 where this annoying feature did not exist. Is it possible that this feature was introduced without any way of disabling it?

also for me this feature is very annoying. of course it could be useful sometimes but that's almost never, hehe. i think it would become more useful than annoying if it didn't have such a large auto-connect radius, it just connects to the closest object, even if it's quite far away.

anyway, better calibration for it please, or at least a disable option.

I hope this is noticed. Most annoying thing for me, too! Maybe it's my clicking style or my small object sizes, but if you'd see me patching, you would instantly understand that this autoconnect feature needs to be optional at least. For me, it very often accidentally happens when I try to drag the drag-dots of patchcords or the object itself. The click hits the outlet and starts a cord-connection. This is the moment where you are already forced to hit escape because releasing the mouse button will create an unwanted cord connection. Nobody else fighting with this?

Have you tried activating "segmented patch cords"?

Ok, that helps a little bit. It solves the problem of unwanted autoconnections. It doesn't help with the fact that you can NOT abort cord connection dragging by simply releasing the mousebutton. And I don't want to use segmented cords if i don't need to. And cmon, how hard could it be for Cycling to implement another checkbox in prefs to disable "autoconnect"?

Amen brother Olsen. I am not sure which is more annoying, the auto-connect, or the sticky segmented cords. I have wasted so many hours tracing bad connections made inadvertently in complicated and dense patches because of the auto-connect feature.

Cycling please give us a Preferences checkbox to defeat auto-connect. Please have pity on us.

That’s your real problem! —It is causing a lot of trouble while editing very dense patches

perhaps the best would be to make an option to set the radius of auto-connect, if it had a small radius it could be quite useful. this way if you want to disable it you can just set the radius to zero

It went up from Max6 to Max7 in a very perceivable way. And the 'grab' area for reconnecting patch cables shrunk too.

I don't do much (any really) patching in Max6 these days, but doing it for a few minutes feels luxurious with regards to cable moving.

I miss Max 6 for many things, not the least of which is the lack of this annoying auto-connect feature. Indeed a control of the radius or sensitivity would be great thing for Cylcing to add or simply add a Preferences checkbox to go back to the Max 6 behavior.

I wish there are many such "Max 6 behavior" checkboxes in the Preferences panel of Max 7!!