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Description
Returns the Flash object type the value that was passed in the dwType parameter when the file was created by the SWFFile.createFile() function.
Arguments
fileName
fileName is a path to a Flash Object file, expressed as a file://URL. This file is usually an .swf file.
Returns
A string representing the object type, or null if the file is not a Flash Object file or if the file could not be found.
Example
The following code checks to see if the file, test.swf, is a Flash object of type myType:
if ( SWFFile.getObjectType("file:///MyMac/test.swf") == "myType" ){
alert ("This is a myType object.");
}else{
alert ("This is not a myType object.");
}