luadocs/content/lua.api.manual/darktable/gui/libs/metadata_view.md

title	id	weight	draft	author
darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view	metadata_view	250	false	people

The widget displaying metadata about the current image

Attributes:

• has_tostring
• parent : types.dt_lua_lib_t

darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view.register_info

function(
  name : string,
  callback : function
)

Register a field in the image information module with a callback function to update the field

• name - string - The name displayed for the new information
• callback - function - The function providing the info

callback -

function(
  image : types.dt_lua_image_t
) : string

• image - types.dt_lua_image_t - The image to analyze
• return - string - The extra information to display

darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view.destroy_info

lua API 6.2.0

function(
  name : string
)

Remove the named field from the image information module and it's associated callback

• name - string - The name of the field, created by darktable.gui.libs.metadata_view.register_info, to remove