The Display global

The Display function is a 'global' function that can be accessed anywhere throughout the notebook. It will take any object and attempt to display it to the user. Built-in supported types are:

FSharp.Charting.ChartTypes.GenericChart
IfSharp.Kernel.GenericChartWithSize
IfSharp.Kernel.TableOutput
IfSharp.Kernel.HtmlOutput
IfSharp.Kernel.BinaryOutput

FSharp.Charting.ChartTypes.GenericChart

1: 
2:

let fruitData = [| ("Cherries", 100); ("Apples", 200); ("Bananas", 150); ("Peaches", 10) |]
Chart.Bar(fruitData) |> Display

IfSharp.Kernel.GenericChartWithSize

1: 
2:

let moreFruitData = [| ("Cherries", 100); ("Apples", 200); ("Bananas", 150); ("Peaches", 10) |]
Chart.Bar(moreFruitData) |> Chart.WithSize(640, 480) |> Display

IfSharp.Kernel.TableOutput

This type is used for displaying data in an HTML table to the screen.

 1: 
 2: 
 3: 
 4: 
 5: 
 6: 
 7: 
 8: 
 9: 
10: 
11: 
12: 
13:

{
    Columns = [| "First Name"; "Last Name" |]
    Rows = 
        [|
            [| "Duane"; "Dibbley" |]
            [| "Arnold"; "Rimmer" |]
            [| "David"; "Lister" |]
            [| "Dave"; "Lister" |]
            [| ""; "Kryten" |]
            [| ""; "Holly" |]
            [| "Kristine"; "Kochanski" |]
         |]
} |> Display

First Name	Last Name
Duane	Dibbley
Arnold	Rimmer
David	Lister
Dave	Lister
	Kryten
	Holly
Kristine	Kochanski

IfSharp.Kernel.HtmlOutput

This type is used for simply displaying a piece of HTML to the screen.

1: 
2: 
3:

{
    Html = @"<div style=""background-color: pink; font-weight: bold;"">Would you like some toast?</div>"
} |> Display

Would you like some toast?

IfSharp.Kernel.BinaryOutput

Used for displaying raw binary data with a content-type. All types are converted to this type when passed through the Display function. Supported content-types can be found on the ipython notebook documentation.

1: 
2: 
3: 
4:

{
    ContentType = "image/png";
    Data = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes("img/toaster.png")
} |> Display

val fruitData : (string * int) []

Full name: Globals.fruitData

type Chart = Chart

Full name: IfSharp.Kernel.Globals.Globals.Chart

static member Chart.Bar : data:seq<#value> * ?Name:string * ?Title:string * ?Labels:#seq<string> * ?Color:System.Drawing.Color * ?XTitle:string * ?YTitle:string -> ChartTypes.GenericChart
static member Chart.Bar : data:seq<#key * #value> * ?Name:string * ?Title:string * ?Labels:#seq<string> * ?Color:System.Drawing.Color * ?XTitle:string * ?YTitle:string -> ChartTypes.GenericChart

val Display : ('a -> unit)

Full name: IfSharp.Kernel.Globals.Globals.Display

val moreFruitData : (string * int) []

Full name: Globals.moreFruitData

static member Chart.WithSize : x:int * y:int -> (#ChartTypes.GenericChart -> GenericChartWithSize)

namespace Microsoft.FSharp.Data

namespace System

namespace System.IO

type File =
  static member AppendAllLines : path:string * contents:IEnumerable<string> -> unit + 1 overload
  static member AppendAllText : path:string * contents:string -> unit + 1 overload
  static member AppendText : path:string -> StreamWriter
  static member Copy : sourceFileName:string * destFileName:string -> unit + 1 overload
  static member Create : path:string -> FileStream + 3 overloads
  static member CreateText : path:string -> StreamWriter
  static member Decrypt : path:string -> unit
  static member Delete : path:string -> unit
  static member Encrypt : path:string -> unit
  static member Exists : path:string -> bool
  ...

Full name: System.IO.File

System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(path: string) : byte []