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regionmanager.type - Function

	Package	general
	Module	images
	Tool	regionmanager

Return the type of this tool

Synopsis
type()

Returns
String

Description
This function returns the string `regionmanager'. If you have a tool, but don't know what kind it is, this function usually exists to tell you that.

Example

- if (is_defined('thing') && is_record(thing) &&
+     has_field(thing, 'type') && is_function(thing.type) 
+     && thing.type() == 'regionmanager') {
+    print 'yippee'
+ } else {
+    print 'it is a sad day that we do not have a regionmanager'
+ };

Imagine we have been given a Glish variable called thing in some function but we can't guarentee its a Regionmanager, as expected. To write robust code, we need to check that it is. This bit of code does that. Note the use of the short cut ``&&'' operator. A statement is only evaluated if the statement to the left is true.