playerType (capabilities.playerType property)

public static playerType : String [read-only]

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

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

trace(System.capabilities.playerType);