Specifies whether access to the user's camera and microphone has been administratively prohibited (true) or allowed (false). The server string is AVD.

For content in Adobe AIR™, this property applies only to content in security sandboxes other than the application security sandbox. Content in the application security sandbox can always access the user's camera and microphone.

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Specifies whether the system supports (true) or does not support (false) communication with accessibility aids. The server string is ACC.

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Specifies whether the system has audio capabilities. This property is always true. The server string is A.

Specifies whether the system can (true) or cannot (false) encode an audio stream, such as that coming from a microphone. The server string is AE.

Specifies whether the system supports (true) or does not support (false) embedded video. The server string is EV.

Specifies whether the system does (true) or does not (false) have an input method editor (IME) installed. The server string is IME.

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Specifies whether the system does (true) or does not (false) have an MP3 decoder. The server string is MP3.

Specifies whether the system does (true) or does not (false) support printing. The server string is PR.

Specifies whether the system does (true) or does not (false) support the development of screen broadcast applications to be run through Flash Media Server. The server string is SB.

Specifies whether the system does (true) or does not (false) support the playback of screen broadcast applications that are being run through Flash Media Server. The server string is SP.

Specifies whether the system can (true) or cannot (false) play streaming audio. The server string is SA.

Specifies whether the system can (true) or cannot (false) play streaming video. The server string is SV.

Specifies whether the system supports native SSL sockets through NetConnection (true) or does not (false). The server string is TLS.

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Specifies whether the system can (true) or cannot (false) encode a video stream, such as that coming from a web camera. The server string is VE.

Specifies whether the system is a special debugging version (true) or an officially released version (false). The server string is DEB. This property is set to true when running in the debug version of Flash Player or the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL).

Specifies the language code of the system on which the content is running. The language is specified as a lowercase two-letter language code from ISO 639-1. For Chinese, an additional uppercase two-letter country code from ISO 3166 distinguishes between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. The languages codes are based on the English names of the language: for example, hu specifies Hungarian.

On English systems, this property returns only the language code (en), not the country code. On Microsoft Windows systems, this property returns the user interface (UI) language, which refers to the language used for all menus, dialog boxes, error messages, and help files. The following table lists the possible values:

The server string is L.

package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
    import flash.system.Capabilities;

    public class Capabilities_languageExample extends Sprite {

        public function Capabilities_languageExample()  {
            var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();         
            myTextField.x = 10;
            myTextField.y = 10;
            myTextField.background = true;
            myTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
            
            var greetingEnglish:String = "Hello World";
            var greetingGerman:String = "Hallo Welt";
            var greetingFrench:String = "Bonjour Monde";
            var greetingSpanish:String = "Hola Mundo";

            var lang:String = Capabilities.language;
                         
            switch (lang) {
                case "en":
                    myTextField.text = greetingEnglish;
                    break;
                case "de":
                    myTextField.text = greetingGerman;
                    break;
                case "fr":
                    myTextField.text = greetingFrench;
                    break;
                case "es":
                    myTextField.text = greetingSpanish;
                    break;
                default:
                    myTextField.text = "Sorry your system's language is not supported at this time.";               
            }
             
            this.addChild(myTextField);
        }
    }
}

Specifies whether read access to the user's hard disk has been administratively prohibited (true) or allowed (false). For content in Adobe AIR, this property applies only to content in security sandboxes other than the application security sandbox. (Content in the application security sandbox can always read from the file system.) If this property is true, Flash Player cannot read files (including the first file that Flash Player launches with) from the user's hard disk. If this property is true, AIR content outside of the application security sandbox cannot read files from the user's hard disk. For example, attempts to read a file on the user's hard disk using load methods will fail if this property is set to true.

Reading runtime shared libraries is also blocked if this property is set to true, but reading local shared objects is allowed without regard to the value of this property.

The server string is LFD.

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Specifies the manufacturer of the running version of Flash Player or the AIR runtime, in the format "Adobe OSName". The value for OSName could be "Windows", "Macintosh", "Linux", or another operating system name. The server string is M.

Specifies the current operating system. The os property can return the following strings: "Windows XP", "Windows 2000", "Windows NT", "Windows 98/ME", "Windows 95", "Windows CE" (available only in Flash Player SDK, not in the desktop version), "Linux", and "MacOS". The server string is OS.

Specifies the pixel aspect ratio of the screen. The server string is AR.

Specifies the type of runtime environment. This property can have one of the following values:

• "ActiveX" for the Flash Player ActiveX control used by Microsoft Internet Explorer
• "Desktop" for the Adobe AIR runtime (except for SWF content loaded by an HTML page, which has Capabilities.playerType set to "PlugIn")
• "External" for the external Flash Player
• "PlugIn" for the Flash Player browser plug-in (and for SWF content loaded by an HTML page in an AIR application)
• "StandAlone" for the stand-alone Flash Player

The server string is PT.

Specifies the screen color. This property can have the value "color", "gray" (for grayscale), or "bw" (for black and white). The server string is COL.

Specifies the dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution of the screen, in pixels. The server string is DP.

Specifies the maximum horizontal resolution of the screen. The server string is R (which returns both the width and height of the screen). This property does not update with a user's screen resolution and instead only indicates the resolution at the time Flash Player or an Adobe AIR application started. Also, the value only specifies the main monitor.

Specifies the maximum vertical resolution of the screen. The server string is R (which returns both the width and height of the screen). This property does not update with a user's screen resolution and instead only indicates the resolution at the time Flash Player or an Adobe AIR application started. Also, the value only specifies the main monitor.

A URL-encoded string that specifies values for each Capabilities property.

The following example shows a URL-encoded string:

A=t&SA=t&SV=t&EV=t&MP3=t&AE=t&VE=t&ACC=f&PR=t&SP=t&
  SB=f&DEB=t&V=WIN%208%2C5%2C0%2C208&M=Adobe%20Windows&
  R=1600x1200&DP=72&COL=color&AR=1.0&OS=Windows%20XP&
  L=en&PT=External&AVD=f&LFD=f&WD=f

Specifies the Flash Player or Adobe^® AIR platform and version information. The format of the version number is: platform majorVersion,minorVersion,buildNumber,internalBuildNumber. Possible values for platform are "WIN", "MAC", and "UNIX". Here are some examples of version information:

  WIN 9,0,0,0  // Flash Player 9 for Windows
  MAC 7,0,25,0   // Flash Player 7 for Macintosh
  UNIX 5,0,55,0  // Flash Player 5 for UNIX
  

The server string is V.