ricardocabellov5.5

Helpful. I usually ended up checking to see if my FlashVars were set to null or not. This is a lot mo' betta. Thanks.

Ditto.. just tried it against a check on my local dev server

var localMode : Boolean = loaderInfo.url.indexOf("http://localhost") == 0;

I used to use that, untill a colleage pointed me to: Capabilities.playerType.


Greetz Erik

This is what I use:

trace(System.capabilities.playerType);

returns:

"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

return new LocalConnection( ).domain == "localhost";

More domain functions can be found on:

http://code.google.com/p/braemar/source/browse/trunk/src/org/braemarframework/utils/DomainUtils.as

var localMode : Boolean = loaderInfo.url.indexOf("http:\\www.file.com") == 0;

an another way:

static public const LOCAL:Boolean = Security.sandboxType != Security.REMOTE;

@Patrick Pietens

then check for 'file:///'.. Thats how we used to do it.

or you could just unplug the cable and see if it works :P

var noob:NoConnection = Cabble.status();

I second the playerType approach, BUT that technically only determines if you're in a browser or not (and if not, that usually means the Flash IDE, but I suppose it works for stand-alone debug mode). It's possible you just opened up the HTML page containing the SWF in a browser, without it being served up on HTTP. In that case, the "indexOf file" trick still correctly determines if you are local or not.

I depends on your needs, I guess. Do you want to determine if you're in a browser or not, or if you're on a web server or not?

Along those lines, I often have a Main movie and a Preloader movie, and I want the Main movie to run either by itself (for debugging) or inside a Loader when it's preloaded. So I kick everything off for Main through a public init() function, and in Main's constructor, I check:

if( !loaderInfo.loader ) {
init();
}

if (Capabilities.playerType != 'ActiveX' && Capabilities.playerType != 'PlugIn' ) {
}
works great

var localMode : Boolean = loaderInfo.url.indexOf("file") == 0;

What happens if your SWF file URL is something like: "http://mywebsite.com/files/foo.swf"?

If you use this option you would be safer to do it like:
var localMode : Boolean = loaderInfo.url.indexOf("file://") == 0;

Hmm. each and every method above had an issue...

loaderInfo.url.indexOf("file") == 0;
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

trace(System.capabilities.playerType);
Warning: 1058: Migration issue: The property capabilities is no longer supported. The capabilities class has been renamed Capabilities..

trace(System.Capabilities.playerType);
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable System::Capabilities is not defined.

trace( Security.sandboxType , Security.REMOTE );
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Security is not defined.

fixed, was trying to use them within a class. works just fine on the timeline before the class initialises, so that's probably the best place to be doing this anyway.

This doesn't help against Crackers that try to hack my highscore does it? ..well maybe it's a little obstacle more.

PlayerType is fine if you are testing in CS4 in the Flash player but in Flex you'll be in the browser ... Dooby's method is the simplest way of detecting if you're online unless you are deploying to a server.