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ReflectionMetadataItem

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Acts as abstract properties for generic information about Classes, Members, Enums, and EnumItems.

Properties

bool

Browsable

Whether or not this can be seen in studio
string

ClassCategory

Describes the category of this class.
bool

ClientOnly

string

Constraint

Describes a constraint for a single-argument function whose argument type is a Instance/ClassName.
bool

Deprecated

Whether or not this item is deprecated.
bool

EditingDisabled

Toggles whether this property can be edited from the Properties window.
bool

IsBackend

Vague value for showing if this depends on backend stuff.
int

PropertyOrder

string

ScriptContext

Describes the context where this member can be used.

If set to "Server", this member will not be available to auto fill when editing a `LocalScript`.
If set to "Client", this member will not be available to auto fill when editing a `Script`.

bool

ServerOnly

double

UIMaximum

The maximum value of this property. Used with ReflectionMetadataItem/UIMinimum to control the slider bar of this property in the Properties window.
double

UIMinimum

The minimum value of this property. Used with ReflectionMetadataItem/UIMaximum to control the slider bar of this property in the Properties window.
double

UINumTicks

The number of potential values the property’s slider bar can be set to, between UIMinimum and UIMaximum.

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bool

Archivable

Determines if an Instance can be cloned using /Instance/Clone or saved to file.
string

ClassName

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

A read-only string representing the class this Instance belongs to
int

DataCost

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

The cost of saving the instance using data persistence.
string

Name

A non-unique identifier of the Instance
Instance

Parent

[NotReplicated]

Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance
bool

RobloxLocked

[Hidden]

A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects
bool

archivable

[Hidden] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]
string

className

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

Functions

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void

ClearAllChildren ( )

This function destroys all of an Instance’s children.
Instance

Clone ( )

Create a copy of an object and all its descendants, ignoring objects that are not Instance/Archivable|Archivable
void

Destroy ( )

Sets the Instance/Parent property to nil, locks the Instance/Parent property, disconnects all connections and calls Destroy on all children.
Instance

FindFirstAncestor ( string name )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/Name is equal to the given name.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name.
Instance

FindFirstChildOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first child of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName|ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChildWhichIsA ( string className , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstDescendant ( string name )

Actor

GetActor ( )

Variant

GetAttribute ( string attribute )

Returns the attribute which has been assigned to the given name
RBXScriptSignal

GetAttributeChangedSignal ( string attribute )

Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes
Dictionary

GetAttributes ( )

Returns a dictionary of string → variant pairs for each of the Instance|Instance’s attributes
Objects

GetChildren ( )

Returns an array containing all of the Instance’s children.
string

GetDebugId ( int scopeLength )

[NotBrowsable]

Returns a coded string of the Instances DebugId used internally by Roblox.
Array

GetDescendants ( )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance
string

GetFullName ( )

Returns a string describing the Instance’s ancestry.
RBXScriptSignal

GetPropertyChangedSignal ( string property )

Get an event that fires when a given property of an object changes.
bool

IsA ( string className )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns true if an Instance’s class matches or inherits from a given class
bool

IsAncestorOf ( Instance descendant )

Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant.
bool

IsDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor.
void

Remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Sets the object’s Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants.
void

SetAttribute ( string attribute , Variant value )

Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value
Instance

WaitForChild ( string childName , double timeOut )

[CustomLuaState] [CanYield]

Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does.
Objects

children ( )

[Deprecated]

Returns an array of the object’s children.
Instance

clone ( )

[Deprecated]
void

destroy ( )

[Deprecated]
Instance

findFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

[Deprecated]
Objects

getChildren ( )

[Deprecated]
bool

isA ( string className )

[Deprecated] [CustomLuaState]
bool

isDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

[Deprecated]
void

remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Events

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RBXScriptSignal

AncestryChanged ( Instance child , Instance parent )

Fires when the Instance/Parent property of the object or one of its ancestors is changed.
RBXScriptSignal

AttributeChanged ( string attribute )

Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

Changed ( string property )

Fired immediately after a property of an object changes.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildAdded ( Instance child )

Fires when an object is parented to this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildRemoved ( Instance child )

Fires when a child is removed from this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantAdded ( Instance descendant )

Fires when a descendant is added to the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantRemoving ( Instance descendant )

Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed.
RBXScriptSignal

childAdded ( Instance child )

[Deprecated]