E.g., [gate 20] gets out ports which are impossible to find individually. Any solution to this? Or should I consider this a design flaw?

[gate 20 ----------------]

You can expand the size of the box by adding "extra arguments."

Thank you for the answer, quick as always!

I actually tried this, because I've seen it in some other people's work. Used in abstraction names, that is. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me.

"error: Bad arguments for message 'gate' to object 'objectmaker'
gate 20 ----------------
... couldn't create"

If it's important: I'm using the latest Mac OS, and Pd 0.42.5-extended.

Right, sorry. That's because you can provide a second optional argument for [gate], which is the one that is open by default. In order for the trick to work, you have to provide the optional arguments as well.

[gate 20 1 -----------------]