Hey guys,
This doubt arises constantly in my work. Is there any way to easily know if the output of a node is being a Var, double, string …?
I would also like to copy the content with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V from a node output. In other words, I thought of something like a watch, but that allows the content inside the Watch to be easily copied (to a notepad for example).
Thanks in Advance,
for the copying part, the used to be a watch+ node by @Dimitar_Venkov, from which you could copy and paste.
the Object.identity node can give you the type of the output i think.
Clockwork also has a Clipboard.SendTo node. Do not feed it a list though. Bad things can happen.
Does this node still exist? I didn’t find it inside Springs 
I tried this one but it still doesn’t give me what kind of info I’m dealing with: in other words, it’s not specifying the type of data
Thank you so much anyway
I believe the node you want is Object.Type.
https://dictionary.dynamobim.com/#/Core/Object/Action/Type
This lets you know the data type for whatever you send it.
Conversely Object.Identity does… nothing. It just passes out what you send in.
https://dictionary.dynamobim.com/#/Core/Object/Action/Identity
@Marcel_Rijsmus I checked and Jacob is right, this node does nothing
Yes, I think this is the node … But does it only work when the input is a var? or It will work with anything I connect?
It has worked with everything I have tried.
Just one more question about it … What kid of “bad things” happen? I wanted to use it in a list and ended up using a List concat before, and it worked (but I used it in a separate file, after all I didn’t know which kind “bad thing” could happen) 
i’m sorry for the inconvenience, i messed up the names of those two nodes.
I’m getting old.
-marcel-
No problem Marcel, all suggestions are very welcome. Don’t worry, we all confuse node names sometimes
Well, on a larger data set the crash kinda bad things, and on any size data set the ‘oops lost some data there’ kinda things. It’s been awhile, but I have a recollection of this node only maintaining the last item in the list for a given structure. Remember the clipboard can only hold one thing at a time - when you hit ctrl + v the one data point is pasted, not several sets of data points.
Happens to us all eventually. 
Got it. But in this case, data loss would always occur in Ctrl + v/clipboard and not in the Dynamo file itself, right?
Right, but with large sets of text it can be hard to track to ensure you aren’t losing anything on paste.
@jacob.small
Do you think we can upgrade the old Watch+ node to newer versions?
The old watch+ node by @Dimitar_Venkov
Watch .dyf (7.1 KB)
Cool, Thank you
It’s still available, just re-categorized and renamed to bring it in line with the changes in 2.0:
