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ShowData()
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Version 2.1

Description

ShowData is an object-free function that returns a handle to the object at position Root/ShowData.

Arguments

This function does not accept any arguments.

Return

  • Handle:
    The function returns a handle to the ShowData object.

Example

This simple example prints the information of the ShowData object in the Command Line History using the Dump() function:

Dump()

The Dump() function returns a string with information about the object, for instance, the name, class, path of the object, its properties, and children.

Learn more in the Dump() topic.

Lua
return function ()
-- The following prints the dump for the object for the show data
Printf("=============== START OF DUMP ===============")
ShowData():Dump()
Printf("================ END OF DUMP ================")
end