Thomas FREDERICKS

I have been using Max for over 10 years. I really like the new Miraweb. Congratulations on that. I used it to control a video installation and it worked great.

But! While I was running the patcher for my installation, I opened the Miraweb help to make sure I had the proper IP address. And you know what happens when you do that? It switches the working folder and then your main patcher cannot find any of the files it should be loading. How to solve this? You open any patcher in the same folder as your project folder and then close it. This is extremely frustrating. Especially when I teach Max and students open examples patchers : if they open two patchers, the first one can not find its relative file paths. Even Pure Data does this. And no, a Max project is not the solution.

Please fix this : a patcher should ALWAYS search first in its own folder without the need of extras (the current behavior is that it searches only the folder of the last patcher opened).

So that issue reminded me of the other major gripes I have with Max. Here they are:

Attruis are really great (especially for beginners) but once you actually use them a lot, you understand they are useless: the data set through an attrui cannot be stored or restored through state saving.

Please fix this : an attrui object than can be linked to a state saving system.

Inlets and outlets are created a plenty and you can easily get lost in what their functions are. Commenting inlets and outlets should be much easier and they should always be labeled in the patcher.

Please fix this : the arguments of an inlet or outlet should be converted to its comment attribute. This comment should always be visible in the patcher containing it.

I thought the following was already implemented, but I can't find how to do it : can an object's non default attributes automatically be converted to arguments in the object box? Like freeze but better.

Please fix this : have an option to convert an object's non default attributes to arguments in the object box.

I have been using Max for over 10 years. I really like the new Miraweb. Congratulations on that. I used it to control a video installation and it worked great. 

But! While I was running the patcher for my installation, I opened the Miraweb help to make sure I had the proper IP address. And you know what happens when you do that? It switches the working folder and then your main patcher cannot find any of the files it should be loading. How to solve this? You open any patcher in the same folder as your project folder and then close it. This is extremely frustrating. Especially when I teach Max and students open examples patchers : if they open two patchers, the first one can not find its relative file paths. Even Pure Data does this.   And no, a Max project is not the solution. 

Please fix this : a patcher should ALWAYS search first in its own folder without the need of extras (the current behavior is that it searches only the folder of the last patcher opened). 

Attruis are really great (especially for beginners) but once you actually use them a lot, you understand they are useless: the data set through an attrui cannot be stored or restored through state saving. 

Please fix this : the arguments of an inlet or outlet should be converted to its comment attribute. This comment should always be visible in the patcher containing it. 

I thought the following was already implemented, but I can't find how to do it : can an object's non default attributes automatically be converted to arguments in the object box? Like freeze but better. 

Please fix this : have an option to convert an object's non default attributes  to arguments in the object box.


max-gripes-please-fix-these-loading-attruis-pattruis-attribute-argument

use Projects for dealing with file paths.

for your last request, use right-click -> Transform -> Changed Attributes to Arguments

I can't repro the first issue. And if it does indeed occur, it sounds like a bug to me. Can you email support at cycling 74 dot come with specific steps to repro as well as example patches?

Regarding inlet/outlet, [inlet @comment "time to make the donuts"] seems to work here ok. Are you doing something else?

Max gripes (please fix these): loading, attruis (pattruis), attribute > argument