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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > capabilities (System.capabilities) > playerType (capabilities.playerType property)

playerType (capabilities.playerType 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 the external player, or test movie mode..
• "PlugIn" for the Flash Player browser plug-in
• "ActiveX" for the Flash Player ActiveX Control used by Microsoft Internet Explorer

The server string is PT.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 7

Example

The following example traces the value of this read-only property:

trace(System.capabilities.playerType);

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