(global)

Supported platforms:
Available since: Gideros 2011.6

Description

Global scope of Lua environment.

Example

Prints all current global variables:

local function globalVariable()
	for k,v in pairs(_G) do
		print(k,v)
	end
end
 
globalVariable()

Methods assert error if v nil or false, otherwise returns v collectgarbage opts: stop, restart, collect, count, step, setpause, setstepmul ColorValue sets a Color the r,g,b,a channel values dofile executes as Lua chunk, default stdin, returns value error terminates protected func, never returns gcinfo returns the total memory heap size in kilobytes getfenv gets env, f can be a function or number(stack level) getmetatable returns metatable of given object, otherwise nil ipairs returns an iterator function, table t and 0 loadfile loads chunk without execution, returns chunk as function, else nil plus error loadstring loads string as chunk, returns chunk as function, else nil plus error next returns next index,value pair, if index=nil(default-, returns first index newproxy creates a blank userdata, with the option for it to have a metatable pairs returns the next function and table t plus a nil, iterates over all key-value pairs pcall protected mode call, catches errors, returns status code first print prints values to stdout using tostring rawequal non-metamethod v1==v2, returns boolean rawget non-metamethod get value of table[index], index != nil rawiter non-metamethod table iteration rawlen non-metamethod length of the string or table rawset non-metamethod set value of table[index], index != nil require loads package, updates _LOADED, returns boolean select returns items in a list or number of items in a list setfenv sets env, f can be a function or number(stack level, default=1-, 0=global env setmetatable sets metatable, nil to remove metatable tonumber convert to number, returns number, nil if non-convertible, 2<=base<=36 tostring convert to string, returns string type returns type of v as a string unpack returns all elements from list vector vector with up to 3 values xpcall pcall function f with new error handler err

Events Constants _G _VERSION

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