Why aren't these features in MaxGUI?
Excellent question, and I wish I knew. I was initially quite impressed with MaxGUI, but I've come to realise that's it's missing a lot of stuff, and judging from the forums a lot of other people have a lot of other requests that probably seem very basic to them too.
Shinji & Noel: Yes, writing my own does seem like the best plan, but I've written two in the past couple of months, and I'll be writing a third soon ( a big, complex one, sadly ) so I'm not sure I can justify writing a fourth for a pretty small app. I guess that's what you get for writing games and apps and using different languages and different engines.. lots more work.