recreation-code

Arguments: object

Returns a lisp form which, when evaluated, will create an object as similar as possible to the one passed in. This is chiefly used internally to generate the code to recreate the interactively laid out dialogs of an IDE project, though it may prove generally useful for saving objects as lisp code that can recreate the objects in later lisp sessions or at runtime. Built-in methods are provided for basic lisp objects and windowing objects, though an application could supply further methods for its own objects.

Returns nil if such code cannot be determined.

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