Olaf,

Thanks for the quick answer. The memory allocation helped with the crash problem. But I still have the symbol problem. I think I don't understand how PD handles messages. I created my outlet with a NULL, so it should be a message outlet. Or is it just an "anything" outlet? Than I use outlet_anything() to output all my text. Yet, when I break the text appart with unpack (the text is used to control various other pd objects, like blinkenlights for example), every word is always preceded by symbol (which is normal, I guess, since I used SETSYMBOL for every entry of the list). But SETSYMBOL seems to be the only way to output strings. So basicaly my question is, is there a way to send regular messages, I mean exactly as they are sent from a message box?

Hi Julien,

haven't tried it, but you probably have to allocate some memory for bluh?!

t_atom *bluh; int size = 2;

bluh = (t_atom *)getbytes(size * sizeof(t_atom));

/* free mem with freebytes() when you don't need it any longer */

or, in case size does not change:

t_atom bluh[2];

Thanks, Julien