Comments on: How to enable Fullscreen Mode for a SWF and Does ExternalInterface Work In It?

By: Kaynak Makinasi

Kaynak Makinasi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:27:11 +0000

This fullscreen mode for a SWF very good for me, thank you.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:24:41 +0000

I’m tied up with other stuff right now and haven’t ever had a need for the fullscreen communication so not sure, but the alert would definitely pull it out of fullscreen. I would think without it and with just passing data it wouldn’t pull it out of fullscreen.

mark

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:22:40 +0000

unfortunately it breaks it in your sample but come to think of it – does it break it if you remove the javascript alert?

That would tell the tale -I have not got far enough in my App to worry about it but thinking ahead for the final roll out.

Would be cool to know though

Thanks

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:59:37 +0000

Wouldn’t the ExternalInterface class work without breaking fullscreen mode?

mark

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:14:01 +0000

actually it does not work any differently that getURL calls unfortunately – still breaks out of fullscreen mode – at least in IE anyway. OF course there is the data stream back to flash which I can appriciate but I was looking fro a method to call JS from Flash Fullscreen without breaking fullscreen mode – any ideas on that?

By: botox

botox — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:55:40 +0000

Thank you admin.
So when the student goes to that topic the UI looks to the path and loads a swf specific to that topic.

By: yurt d???nda e?itim

yurt d???nda e?itim — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:32:52 +0000

The UI I built loads the menu/navigation from an xml file. In that xml is also a path attribute for the path to each topic for the course. So when the student goes to that topic the UI looks to the path and loads a swf specific to that topic.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:39:56 +0000

Hi Philip,

Ah – I knew there had to be a reason not to use it. Fortunately for me, this particular project I added it to consists only of static slides (I have no control over the content at this time – I was tasked with just converting the content to a swf format and wrap in a nice-looking UI). It also has some Captivate swf’s. but they are view-only – no interaction.

Out of curiosity, I did a quick test and created a 2 slide Captivate topic. On the first slide I added a text-input field and the second slide just had a ‘it worked’ caption. I then wrapped it as a topic in the course UI and tested in fullscreen, by typing in some text and clicking the ’submit’ button in the captivate, and it worked. I was able to enter text successfully in the input text-field. So, it seems to bypass the fullscreen security restrictions. Perhaps the restriction is only for intra-objects (ie, not loaded/external swf objects)? It could also just be that captivate swf’s, as you know better than anyone, are a completely different animal and perhaps the AVM has no control over them? I don’t know.

mark

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By: philip

philip — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:59:02 +0000

i’ve avoided using full-screen in elearning because of Adobe’s security restrictions:

* The ActionScript that initiates full-screen mode can be called only in response to a mouse click or keypress.

* Users cannot enter text in text input fields while in full-screen mode. All keyboard input and key-related ActionScript is disabled while in full-screen mode, with the exception of the keyboard shortcuts that take the viewer out of full-screen mode.

these two limitations would cause serious issues with our courses, esp. item #2. if these two limitations weren’t around i’d probably use full-screen mode all the time.

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