Resizable windows

I'm pretty new to Max so please forgive me if this is a silly question. I have a few patches of interest that seem to have this option that is driving me nuts, when the patcher window opens up (in edit mode) it isn't resizable and I can't seem to find the option to change that.

At this point I think there must be some voodoo scripting that perhaps hard-codes the window size or something because right when the patch is loading I see the resizer tab and can click and resize the window but after the patch is loaded it snaps to a fixed size and removes the resizer tab.

I know someone has the answer to this!!!! :)

thx
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