Thanks for all the kind replies! All of these are super helpful and supported me in learning more for my project. For now I ended up going with @ben.wes approach. Thanks so much

Hey there! I am currently facing an issue within my PD patch, and I am not sure if I am misunderstanding how the radio (Hradio in my case) object works.

Here's what's happening: I am trying to cyclically rotate through three different stages (so first 0, 1, 2, start again at 0...) by using a bang as a button, and I have managed to connect it so that when I activate the bang, the hradio goes through all three cells in that manner - however, this doesn't activate the individual bangs for what I am trying to do. The curious thing is that it works as intended when I manually click on the corresponding cells in the Hradio.

Here's my patch so far:

Maybe I'm also overcomplicating something here, but I would really appreciate any help with this.