It was in fact working

It has tons of useful features including scrolling displays - and more stuff to come in the next weeks.
It's uploaded if any of you want to play with it - you can get it here: http://ax.to/softstep-download - and you can see the source here: http://ax.to/max
See my earlier announcement viewtopic.php?f=40&t=529 for a more complete discussion...