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Le 17 mai 08 à 12:35, Peter Castine a écrit :

> This is definitely one of the big hurdles for beginners, and the  
> most common mistake I see are messages written inside object boxes  
> & vice versa. You can explain the difference until you're blue in  
> the face, but people just need time to absorb it. For some people  
> it takes a _lot_ of time.

Sure. However, this problem is not because of the GUI, does it ? I  
feel that for a beginner it's just hard to get when/why they need a  
message sent to an object or an object result sent to another object.  
Thus I'm not sure making the GUI more distinctive will solve the  
problem. It won't hurt though, so it's still a good thing. That said,  
maybe I'm just biased by my personal experience - my Max teaching  
experience being surely yet limited.

> No one is complaining about the change from two thin lines top/ 
> bottom to a colored 3-pixel frame all around.

Actually, if I were to complain, that would about this. I'm not that  
much bothered with round corners. However, I got the feeling that the  
colored/borderless frame make the so-called blurry effect more  
annoying than it is. Maybe if it was thinner readability would be  
improved ? Just wondering, I just spend couple of minutes here and  
then on Max 5 so I'll see how I deal with this when I make some  
serious patching when I have some free time.

Best,
Juilen
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