[dirGames-L] How to ask Flash "where am i?"

[Thomas Higgins]

And to be complete there is also another potential value for that
property: "DirectorXtra", the value returned when your SWF is playing
inside of Director. 

Cheers,
Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director & the Shockwave Player
Adobe Systems Incorporated

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dirgames-l-bounces at nuttybar.drama.uga.edu 
> [mailto:dirgames-l-bounces at nuttybar.drama.uga.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Valentin Schmidt
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:42 AM
> To: Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game Production
> Subject: Re: [dirGames-L] How to ask Flash "where am i?"
> 
> hi tom,
> 
> it's System.capabilities.playerType
> 
> (copied from help:)
> 
> Description
> Read-only property; a string that indicates the type of player. This 
> property can have one of the following values:
> - "StandAlone" for the Flash StandAlone Player
> - "External" for the Flash Player version used by test movie mode,
> - "PlugIn" for the Flash Player browser plug-in
> - "ActiveX" for the Flash Player ActiveX Control used by Microsoft 
> Internet Explorer
> 
> (it's 6 pm here, so I'm already filled up with coffee :-)
> 
> cheers,
> valentin