You can also set up your code along these lines:
var inTestMovie:Boolean = false;
trace( inTestMovie = true );
if (inTestMovie)
{
// do wacky test movie stuff
}
else
{
// do normal stuff
}
Then you can just turn off trace statements when you want to see the 'normal'
behavior, and leave them on when you want your 'test movie' behavior. You're
probably turning off trace statements on your deliverables anyway.
If you do a done of stuff like this, though, it might be best to use a
preprocessor on your source and have it dump out two different code branches
for you. (I don't have any recommendations on AS preprocessors; I had to throw
one together in Perl at work myself.)
-John Mark Hawley
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> From: "Chuck Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/01/26 Fri AM 08:59:59 CST
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> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] how to tell if you're running in the ide
>
> I've occasionally used the trick of checking whether this._url begins
> with "file:" Doesn't exactly tell you if you're running in the IDE, but
> does tell you whether it's running locally on your machine or in a
> browser, from a web server.
>
>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:41 PM
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> Subject: [Flashcoders] how to tell if you're running in the ide
>
> Is there a way for a SWF to know if it's running in the "test movie"
> environment vs the browser or standalone players? I often have a need
> to compile in different settings in test-movie than I do for
> deployment, and have to manually remember to take them out before
> shipping a build. Or is there a more elegant way to handle that sort
> of thing?
>
> -josh
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