View component methods

[corvorosso 0]

when in lua i try to see some methods from a component

 

=compoment.componentname

 

the reseult show only 9 entries

and

 

"..."

 i know there is some other methods over the 3 dots.

 

there is a way to show all methods from a component ?

 

 

 

other problem

when i see my component with a low tier graphic card or low tier monitor, the result is more than one page and the monitor scroll down.

 

there is a way to see the text before, or maybe a way to show the list page by page, or stop the scrolling at the end of the page until I press enter ?

 

Thank you all in advance

 

PS sorry for my poor english

[mpmxyz 27]

I actually wrote a program to make looking at components and libraries easier:

http://oc.cil.li/index.php?/topic/576-cbrowse-inspecting-lua-components-and-other-objects/

You can navigate through everything using your mouse or the command line.

You can go back via Ctrl+C.

If you like to read a component method's documentation just input that:

=tostring(method)

To install the program you also need another program. (cbrowse is packed in a tar archive; this program creates and extracts them)

http://oc.cil.li/index.php?/topic/421-tar-for-opencomputers/

 

To make it a bit easier for you, here are the commands for installation (needs an internet card):

cd /
wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpmxyz/ocprograms/master/home/bin/tar.lua'
wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mpmxyz/ocprograms/master/tars/cbrowse.tar'
tar -xf cbrowse.tar

[Sylphio 0]

A really simple solution but not ideal is the use a "not-so-documented" feature of the serialization library.

Just do
=serialization.serialize(compoment.componentname, 100000)  -- 10000 = the maximum number of line to pretty print
 

[corvorosso 0]

Your program is really amazing , and i think i will use it for check method and components.

 

but i want to know , if and how i can resolve the problem to show more than 9 entries, when i search for a component method. Not only for find more method, but for undersend better OpenComputer mod.

And if there is any command to see a list of something like components, page by page with a console command.

[dgelessus 26]

You can use Lua's built-in pairs function to go over all keys and values of a table (such as a component or a required library). My quick command to see all fields of a table is for k, v in pairs(thing) do print(k, v) end.