isKindOf

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Description

Description:

Checks whether the given object or type is (a subtype) of the given type.
While Syntax 1 and Syntax 2 only support CfgVehicles, CfgAmmo and CfgNonAIVehicles, Syntax 3 can be used with any config, including the mission config.

Groups:

Object Manipulation

Syntax 1

Syntax:

object isKindOf typeName

Parameters:

object: Object

typeName: String

Return Value:

Boolean

Syntax 2

Syntax:

typeName1 isKindOf typeName2

Parameters:

typeName1: String

typeName2: String

Return Value:

Boolean

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Syntax 3

Syntax:

typeName1 isKindOf [typeName2, targetConfig]

Parameters:

typeName1: String

typeName2: String

targetConfig: Config

Return Value:

Boolean

Examples

Example 1:

vehicle player isKindOf "Tank";

Example 2:

"BMP2" isKindOf "Tank";

Example 3:

currentWeapon player isKindOf ["Rifle", configFile >> "CfgWeapons"];

Additional Information

See also:

typeOf countType inheritsFrom configHierarchy

Notes

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Only post proven facts here! Add Note

Posted on April 23, 2007 - 16:34

Kronzky

This command can be used on the whole hierarchical class tree (i.e. when checking a HMMWV, one could test for "HMMWV50", "Car", "LandVehicle", etc., all of which would return true.)

Posted on 16 Apr, 2008

Dr_Eyeball

It appears isKindOf is limited to the CfgVehicles branch of the class hierachy.
So CfgWeapons, CfgMagazines, etc will return false for checks like: ("M9" isKindOf "Pistol") returns false

Posted on 8 Nov, 2009

.kju

In a2 isKindOf also works for CfgAmmo in addition to CfgVehicles: ("M_9M311_AA" isKindOf "MissileBase") returns true. NOT for CfgWeapons, CfgMagazines and others..

Posted on June 16, 2015 - 17:54 (UTC)

James

In case you cannot use isKindOf because of the reasons stated, just use BIS fnc returnParents with class names as return value:

_isKindOf = "Rifle" in [configFile >> "CfgWeapons" >> "BWA3_G36K", true] call BIS_fnc_returnParents; // is true`

Posted on September 6, 2015 - 22:21 (UTC)

Basstard

In A3 isKindOf works well with CfgWeapons and CfgMagazines using the syntax from example 3.
It should be prefered to James' solution as it performs more than 25x faster. Tested in debug console with the following code snippets:

bool = "CA_Magazine" in ([configFile >> "CfgMagazines" >> "HandGrenade", true] call BIS_fnc_returnParents); --> 0.12111ms

bool = "HandGrenade" isKindOf ["CA_Magazine", configFile >> "CfgMagazines"]; --> 0.00439453ms

When checking in CfgVehicles the syntax from example 2 performs a little faster.