New to Max. Have questions.

    afuse
    Jan 25 2012 | 9:38 pm
    Hello,
    Could a Max app be easily embedded in other software?
    I have been programming with C#, a little C++, and Java, could a Max app be connected to (or embedded in) a separate custom application, such as a Visual C# windows app, etc.?
    Could a "standalone" Max app be easily distributed to different user's operating systems?
    Thank you, afuse
    • Ben Carey
      Jan 27 2012 | 2:33 am
      I'm not sure about embedding a standalone in separate applications, but I can tell you that standalones are platform specific.
      A standalone build (at least on Mac OS X) is a combination of a collective file (.mxf) and a version of Max runtime running together and acting as a separate application.
    • Roman Thilenius
      Jan 27 2012 | 12:50 pm
      you can at any time distribute or share a max application uncompiled, i.e. as patches. this way your work is cross platform.
    • johnr
      Jan 28 2012 | 12:43 pm
      Building on Romans comment ...Yet another amazing thing, in the very long list of amazing things, that max does/can be sone in max