hello, I have loaded some data into the text object but it does not seem to flow to other objects, or to the print console. I can see it is loaded into the object as when I click it while the program is running it shows up in the text window. But I cannot get it to show up in a number box, or the console. I have tried unpack and adding a bang, but these do not work.

You need [text get]. Check [text]'s help patch, everything you need is there.