Ive reduced what Im trying to do as much as I can.

The problem seems simple:

I want to have an abstract that I can pass a filename in that is for a file of data. then graph the data.

I've tried a lot of things. None work. I would prefer not to use pd-extended, this is to go on a beaglebone and I don't want to have loads of stuff on there that I am not using.

So can someone tell me why [pack $1 s] doesn't recognize $1 and tells me it is the wrong type but does recognize the output from [makefilename $0-array] ? (passing in testdata.txt)

Why doesn't [makefilename $1.txt] recognize $1 and make a file name testdata.txt ? (passing in testdata)

[print $1] works. it seems to be the only thing that does in this context.

Sorry if I sound a bit frustrated but I have been trying this for two weeks, reading and testing lots of different ways.

I realise I am doing something wrong but for the life of me I do not know what.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Michael

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pdtestabstract.zip

Thank you so much. As you can probably tell I have little experience with PD. It is so simple when you know how!!!!

I hope I will help someone too soon, that way what goes around comes around.

Cheers

Michael

further to this:
I'm using Ubuntu Studio 13.10 on a desktop I built. pd version 0.44.3.

I installed from the ubuntu 13.10 repository and that worked.

I have a raspberry Pi as well as two beaglebone blacks and a white. not sure there will be enough memory on the white but there is on the 512 rpi so they shouldnt be a problem. what i want to do is to use the pd net facility so that program changes like the music key can be shared.

Ive got it running on BeagleBoneBlack from the Ubuntu 13.10 repositories connecting though jacknet to my pc. The only problem not solved is that for some reason it isnt seeing alsamidi.