why?

1.) when max was born monitors were only 640 pixels wide. 2.) there must be a few differences between max and pd to demonstrate that they different programs. :) for workarounds for egde cases where you might want this search the forum, here is a simple one:

https://cycling74.com/forums/limit-of-the-function

Part curious, part want to pass +9 args to patcher when scripting.

"my" method should work with scripting too (except when there is a space or slash character directly beside the quotes or similar weird things.) script newdefault 188 152 50 mypatch "100 200 300 400 set 5 write frgb 20 20 20"

Ah, interesting! Will give that a whirl! Thanks.