# Detecting if I am in the IDE or not

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-i-am-in-the-ide-or-not/222460>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-i-am-in-the-ide-or-not/222460 "2007-04-13T16:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![voxecho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@voxecho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/voxecho)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-i-am-in-the-ide-or-not/222460/1 "2007-04-13T16:20:27Z")

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I’ve asked this before, but for the life of me i can’t find it :\

how do you figure out of you are in IDE/DEV mode or actually in a external player?

i no longer have access to the code which i wrote which made use of this, but i seem to recall it being something like Application.name but that doesn’t do anything :\

Thanks in Advance  
-Echo