First: Please see Code markup: Correct style – if someone copy/pastes the example, it won’t run because some * characters have been interpreted as italics –
The backtick tags described in the link will override text formatting, and then we’ll see ~y*pi as I’m sure you originally wrote.
Then: A SendReply / OSCdef pair is the normal way to get changing data from the server into the language. The OSCdef would prepare variables with the new data and then do defer { ~v.refresh }.
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