a patch which shows various simple counters in pd using only vanilla objects.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/simple-counters.pd

But where is it, the patch?

Sorry about that. this is a new forum section, so permissions had not been enabled. It should be fine now, yeah?

Yep, thanks! Will study patch!

Thanks, good reference, could be included along the counter.pd example in the distribution.