hi, hi,
I am new to puredata, and trying to build a really simply sonification patch. I am however stuck at the very beginning with trying to get the patch to read and print data. I've tried many many different things and can see online textdefine is then link to a 'read' object, however if I ever try and make a read object no matter how I describe its location the box is always red. Is read an object? or do I 'put' something else to get it to work? the file is in the same location as the patch, and I have also defined the path, non of this works.

If I understand your question right, "read" isn't an object (ctrl-1) -- it's a message (ctrl-2). Try creating the read box as a message box instead of an object.

hjh

amazing, thank you so much, I have been trying to figure this out for a whole day.

I was wondering if you could be so kind as to answer another question, I have now the data in the text or textfile object, but although I can see this data stored in the objects when I join them to print, they do not show up in the PD console. How can I send the values onwards?