Mark has stated that the event system will be independant of MaxGUI - so Max2D and the rest of Max can benefit from it as well... question is... does the event system come free or do you only get it if you buy MaxGUI?
Working flawlessly across 3 platforms, it's bound to be a large part of the MaxGUI purchase, if you ask me. And once you have a proper event system at your disposal it's hard to force yourself to use the old polling commands... I can quite easily see MaxGUI becoming a compulsary purchase if you want to run any example/pd code without a lot of tweaks and changes. So a lot of people who are saying 'I don't want or need MaxGUI' might need to end up getting it anyway.
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Working flawlessly across 3 platforms, it's bound to be a large part of the MaxGUI purchase, if you ask me. And once you have a proper event system at your disposal it's hard to force yourself to use the old polling commands... I can quite easily see MaxGUI becoming a compulsary purchase if you want to run any example/pd code without a lot of tweaks and changes. So a lot of people who are saying 'I don't want or need MaxGUI' might need to end up getting it anyway.
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