How might one go about resizing an external in PD?

I've created an external with multiple inputs, and it's sized such that I can't tell where one input ends, and the other begins.

Max/MSP allows me to resize objects with the mouse. For the externals I'm creating (for PD) there isn't any "Properties" option. Is this something I need to program into my external myself?

-k

for subpatches/abstractions, you can just add a whole bunch of meaningless symbols at the end of the object:

so [pd mysubpatch]

becomes [pd mysubpatch --------------------------------]

or something like that.

so, i guess for externals, if you have lots of inputs and outputs, just give them really long names.