If you are devving in the Flash IDE, sometimes you may need to use local variables that are different from the live version. A good example would be with paths to images or other swfs. You can use the flash.system.Capabilities.playerType for this very thing:-
// DETERMINE IF IN DEV MODE
if(flash.system.Capabilities.playerType == "External")
{
_IsDebug = true;
}
In this instance, I am using the _IsDebug var throughout the document class to set local or live paths.
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as3,
flash
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Actionscript