# Can you tell from where your swfs are run?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-tell-from-where-your-swfs-are-run/43064>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [February 18, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-tell-from-where-your-swfs-are-run/43064 "2004-02-18T14:08:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![eyezberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/77aa72/32.png) [@eyezberg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eyezberg)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-tell-from-where-your-swfs-are-run/43064/1 "2004-02-18T14:08:47Z")

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"Since today this property completely slipped by without being noticed (by me at least):  
System.capabilities.playerType

A friend of mine asked me if i knew a way of telling from where the swf is being run (standalone, browser… etc). I didn’t… and where do you go first when you don’t know the answer? … Help docs, of course 🙂  
And there it was: System.capabilities.playerType. Just the thing i needed. It is a property (of type string) that indicates the type of the player. It can return the value of “StandAlone” if the swf is being run in a standalone player, “External” if the swf is run from the FlashIDE, “PluigIn” if its run from within a browser (of Netscape type) and “ActiveX” if its run from within IE.  
Cool. I learned something new today. :)"

so did you? 🙂

(via [http://www.klaustrofobik.org/blog/archives/000236.html](http://www.klaustrofobik.org/blog/archives/000236.html) )