I'd like to be able to add comments to events being triggered. My event triggers are numbers (36,37,38) and the current solution is reading these and using a [sel 36 37 38] object triggering messages into a symbol box.

Is there a better way to approach this? I've been reading up on the [textfile] object but it appears only to be able to rewind. i need to be able to jump around to different positions.

You need to change your event definition to be a list I guess. Instead of having just a number like 38, 37, 36 you might like to try giving them some structure like

event is [name number the rest is a comment(

Then use [route] instead of [select] to move events where you want.

Using

it's possible to get at any of the parts of the list for an event.

Take off the first two elements, a symbol "name" and a float "number" and so what you like with them. The rest can be made [tosymbol] and displayed as ascii.

have a look at [msgfile] from zexy..it jumps around like you want to.

that [msgfile] appears to do what i need, thanks!

I'll look into reformatting my events aswell.