@soulflyer my apologies for not responding. I somehow missed your post and thank you @whale-av for sorting it

I really like the grid trick and the way the whole thing evolved
Cheers
Balwyn

you could prefix the binary symbol with an non-numeric symbol eg. bin$1$2$3$4(, then use [rout.e bin1100 bin1101 bin1110 bin1111].
I notice you are using [gate] as a [spigot] and you have four [sel] instead of [sel 12 13 14 15].
Is the binary representation the actual output? or does it need to converted to decimal
This may offer some help
4bit.pd

Just a bit of silliness
cylon-dreaming.zip

I have no real agenda here apart from wishlist, but surely a mouse up event would be a necessity in any programming language and is seriously missing in Pure Data.
So here I offer yet another clunky work around where line is giving an immediate update then the y output is forced into a matrix
slider-line.pd

with windows you could also use a batch file to start pd, add a path to a folder containing the mouseup-plugin.tcl and then open the patch that contains the [r mouseup]

eg. mousetest.bat

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Pd\bin"
pd -path ..\extra\tclmouse-folder -open ~\Desktop\test-folder\mouse-test.pd

click every step.
windows 10 touch screen laptop

@ingox very nice!, the grid responds quite nicely on my touch screen

I think [msgfile] is generated by the zexy.dll.
I also found this in the Readme.txt. in the zexy folder which may explain things if you compiled it yourself.
multi-object vs single-object libraries:
by default, zexy builds a single library "zexy" that contains all objects.
if - for some obscure reason - you insist on having a lot of small libraries
each containing a single object, you can enable this by using the
"--disable-library" flag

@whale-av No laughter here, I think this is amazing in its simplicity. It took me a while to work out to put the 'mouseup-plugin.tcl' in the extra folder, but now its working, I'll see what I can do with it. Are there other mouse events that can be bound in this way?
Cheers and thanks
Balwyn