Full Screen... Impossible?

Report · Apr 12, 2012

Hello all,

I am very new to Flash, but very excited to learn!

Right now, I am working on a very simple project that is 600x400px with some shapes and buttons on the stage. However, I wanted to know if there was a way that I could include a button that (when clicked) would make the .swf file go into a fullscreen mode, and also keep everything on my stage in scale and not distort everything.. (Think of a Youtube video going fullscreen). Then having another button appear to make it a small screen again.

I have had a very hard time searching for the answer, because there is so much to do with the flash player and making it full screen--but that mainly had to do with movies.

I should also say, that I am not planning to put this on a website; but that it would be acessed by just a computer. (It's a educational jepordy game that I am making for teacher). So I am not sure if that would make a difference in the answer.

Thanks guys,

Tobin

Report · Apr 12, 2012

Full-screen can be toggled on or off using the Stage class. To go to full-screen mode in Action Script 2, use:

Stage.displayState="fullScreen";

To go back to window mode

Stage.displayState="normal";

And you have to set value in the swf embedding object as shown below:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
   codebase="http://.../swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
   width="550" height="400" id="sample" align="middle">
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
   <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
   <param name="movie" value="sample.swf" />
   <param name="quality" value="high" />
   <param name="bgcolor" value="#333333" />
   <embed src="sample.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#333333"
width="550" height="400"
name="sample" align="middle"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowFullScreen="true"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</embed>
</object>

Report · Apr 12, 2012

Thanks for your quick reply!

I have seen this answer (or an answer like it) to other people's questions. However, I am not planning to put this on a website--so would the embedding code be placed somewhere else?

Also, where would the Stage.displayState="fullScreen"; code go? On a button?

Report · Apr 12, 2012

Yes the code will be on button click.