You could try to achieve something similar using dial mode and creating a string of images, perhaps a screenshot of the [number] or [flonum] object from max which you can then use as the cell images in [matrixctrl]. If you do need it to output floats you can always scale the numbers outside of the object.

lh

my bad ! i didn't know...

hm anyway, the way you increase one cell's value by dragging the mouse up and down can't be repoduced that way, as well a reaching +∞ or -∞ values. Or can it ?

You do need to set a min and max value, which is determined by the number of images in your "number-box cell" string of images. Check "Dial Mode" in the matrixctrl Inspector to activate the mouse up/down dragging motion.

Check out "Knobman" (free):

it makes it really simple to make the long horizontal string of images you'll need for each of the cell's steps/states. Not sure if you can do a number box image, but possibly. Great stuff.

Also you could just patch up a whole string of number boxes in a row, set each to ascending numbers, and use a screenshot of that for your image. You'll need to be exact though, so make sure the boxes are a standard size which snaps evenly to your grid (like 40 pixels on a 10 x 10 grid).

knobman is windows only. I would have used it with pleasure though...

anyway the whole thing doesn't seem as convenient to me as a Max float number box is ;)

anyway the whole thing doesn't seem as convenient to me as a Max float number box is ;)

especially when you try holding Shift for finer control :)

I just installed Knobman into wine (http://darwine.sourceforge.net/) on Snow Leopard. You might need to install also python 2.6.

It simply works, I just needed some time to discover that you have to give a filename without extension on export. It will save a .tga file which can be converted into png with preview...

Stefan