True Fullscreen Flash Mode

I'm sorry, but it doesn't work for me.
What do you have to do with applet html?

Hi! Thank you! How do you remove the info. bar in the middle that tells you to hit esc. when switching to fullscreen?

Sorry Kathleen, there is no way to remove it.

I beg your pardon, it doesn't work for me too.I tried even after downloading your swf fife in my web page.Could u help me out,please.
Thanking you in advance.

saminda

Fullscreen mode only works when viewing from a browser and you use the tag <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> in your code. See the html above.

Dang everytime it goes fullscreen my movie is in the top corner off centered help! :O

You could put your content into a container movie clip, and then center that container each time the movie is resized.

I am trying to get my site to start in Full screen mode. As I know that Adobe limits this, I am trying to add a simple entery page so the user clicks on a button that says "Launch HDonlineCinema.com" and then the button should start HDonlineCinema.com the video in full screen mode. I am not a program, but a producer. How can I apply the above code to do that. Please this is urgent.

Thank you,

John
JDowling81@hotmail.com

I ask a question,is js can control the Fullscreen Flash Mode?could you tell me how to do it?

remember, this works only with transparent mode DISABLED

In Safari (MAC) my buttons doesn't works in fullscreen mode ??? You can click on it.. butt the rollover state doesn't work anymore ?

Help me

What version of flash are you running?

Hey Jujo...

What the heck is transparent mode, and disabled where/how?

thanks so much! works perfectly :o)

just started with my first website ! and i want to have my flash site in fullsreen can sombody edit this ! and can somebody explain this in a more easy way.

I can't seem to get this to work!
Downloaded the resource and the .swf works perfect in my HTML editor
But
When I use the same attibutes *codes* as for this one on my own project, nothing seems to work :|

Any help would be appreciated :D

Does anybody know how to get this to work in both IE6 and opera?? It works perfectly in Firefox, Safari, and Netscape for me.. Are there any known hacks or anything, or is this just something that has not been dealt with yet??

Rick, It works for me using those browsers. Maybe your browsers are using older versions of flash.

I experienced the same problems as Hekka... I use Firefox/Safari for Mac.

In the fullscreen-Mode the Rollovers don't work anymore...

Is there some fix for this problem?

thank you.

This example does not work because it is written in AS 2.0. If you try to publish the example .fla in Flash 9, AS 3.0, the movie will throw multiple errors.

The example works for me in Safari 3.0.4 Flash Player 9.0r115. It also worked in Firefox but not in IE 5.2 for the Mac.

thanks!

Thanks dost!! It really work for me....... :)

it wont work here!

Hi, first of all great little tut!

Just a quick question ... Would this fullscreen method work across a 2 monitor setup??? ( the setup in question has 1 monitor at a larger resolution to the other monitor)

thanks !!!

This was very good tut. I only have one problem. It doesn't work in Mozilla Firefox. And I followed these steps:
ActionScript: I made button and attached script to it, as said in tut. Then I created a function that this script calls.
HTML: I just added following line: <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
This works perfectly in IE, but not at all in Mozilla.
Any idea why?

vlada, it works fine for me in Mozilla. Maybe you need to upgrade your mozilla flash plugin.

For some people here having trouble, remember that if something doesn't work you should update your Flash plugin and clear your browser cache. Your cache may be using an old version of your .swf, even if you've forced a refresh.

make sure you change your publish settings to flash only allow full screen

can the width and height of the fullscreen can be adjusted. i mean, i just want some padding of all the sides? would it be possible?

Nice tutorial!

Works perfect thanks a million! Hehe, tried one hundered times with as3 before I noticed this was as2

This works great, thanks for all the hard work.

But is there a way to make the 'toggle full screen' button disappear in full screen mode and reappear in normal screen mode?

i love you guy...this help me alot!!!thanks soooo much!!!

For the code to work in both IE and FireFox. you must also allowfullscreen ="true" into the embed tag as well.

<embed ... allowfullscreen ="true" ... />

Thanks for a great help!

Hi, i have a movie where 20 frames are there and i want to open full screen after clicking on button and it jmps to frame 20 where loadmovienum is written...

Can you please help me out

John, fantastic tutorial, it works wonderfully.

I second sunshine - any idea if there's a way to do this via javascript?

I have the external interface calls working just dandy, passing text back and forth, but when I call the function to full screen it, nothing happens. If I click the button, it full screens fine.

I'm guessing its a security issue, although maybe its just something I'm doing wrong?

Well, ignore me. I found my answer, from <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html">Adobe</a> near the bottom: <em>The ActionScript that initiates full-screen mode can be called only in response to a mouse click or keypress. If it is called in other situations, it will be ignored (in ActionScript 2.0) or throw an exception (in ActionScript 3.0).</em> So, back to the drawing board, I guess.

not work good in opera :( in IE and FireFox work good

I am running a projector file at fullscreen and if I do a getURL or do a print function (and see system print command), it kicks my program OUT of fullScreen mode and into a Flash 9 player at movie size. Any way to prevent this?
Thank you.

Hi, is any one is there to help me out.

When I press the escape button I return to the normal mode.
I need also to associate to the escape button another action, a LoadMovie; can I put two actions on pressing escape button? How?

emanuele,
place your loadMovie code within the toggleFullScreen function.

I tried but probably I putted it not in the exact point

Where I have to put the loadMovie?

Can you rewrite the function with also the
loadMovie("aaa.swf",_root.target); ?
or
getURL("http://www.google.com/",_blank); ?

Hi all!

I pretty much have the same qustion as expgfx. Im have a fullscreen projector file, where i want to open a html page on top of without it closing fullscreen. I know it works if I export from flash 8. Is this possible from a flash cs3 projector?

appreciate any help!

@Kevin
Is your Opera updated? it works fine on mine.

Getting flash to go fullscreen is fine using your code. What I want to do is limit the size of the swf loaded to the movie to 1440 x 1000 pixels. I do not seem to be able to do this. Any ideas appreciated.

Thank You Very Much :)) It works well

the html is very important!
must use object data="your movie name.swf"
and don't use the embedded syntax

the fullscreen button works but my flash is in the top corner. what did i do wrong? is there something in the flash file that i need to change?

kp, Move the objects each time you resize the screen. Place the code within this function - resizeListener.onResize = function () {
You can figure out where it should go by using Stage.width and Stage.height to get the new dimemsions.

Flash cs3 > publish settings > html > template > flash only - allow fullscreen

Hello, at first thank you for this beautiful work. I begin a model of site and I have a problem I use a different cursor and the toggle in fullscreen mode show the basic cursor, is it possible not to see the hand displaying? Here is the example in question to be even more clear:

http://www.icare-webdesign.com /estelle

Please help me :(
prends_le_billet@hotmail.com

thanks

Anyone know how to get this code to work via the right click menu? I want fullscreen to be fired from the right click drop down.

Cheers

i am using a custom cursor, too. (custom mouse)
when i run the page in opera my mouse disappears, basic mouse stays still without moving. other browsers works fine.
can anyone help me with that?

note: i use the last versions of both flash and opera.

Is it possible to go full screen and still allow text entry?

Hi!
I find your Flash tips very helpfull, thank you for your work!
If you may help me, please explain how to send a user feedback like this one, from a Flash Interface with a form to an e-mail?

"MNM"

jukuktk

when I post the example html (above) on my page it works, but when I use the swf file from the downloaded source file - it doesn't work. I have put the <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> but I think the problem is with the swf??? can anyone help?

is this version able to do full screen - 9.0.0.498 ? thanks

Dan, I'm pretty sure the javascript function is nmot receiving the param allowFullScreen. You are aware that IE has settled with eolas and is no longer using 'click here to activate'?

Cheers John got it working.. . .legend!

the script works well wid as 2, but wt to do with as3??, pl help

It's really superb... Good Job...

Does anyone know how to set flash .exe file fullscreen on vista OS ?

Hi,

I added a movieclip inside the main movie to keep my clip centered, however the toggle button switches position when I go fullscreen & then centers on top of my movie when I return...?

How can I keep the toggle button at one specific point in the movie ?

THANKS !

congrats for the tutorial
:))

I had no problems with the code, but when I click the button my .swf doesn't resize. Instead it goes to the top left corner. Any ideas?

excellent work

i changed the button position but it doesnt work. for eg:
i positioned the button bottom of the stage, but when i pressed the button, that time the button is position center of the stage. But i want same position in fullscreen mode. how is it possible..... if possible please mention the sample of site

HI I AM MANGESH. YOUR GIVEN SCRIPT WORKS VERY FINE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS A LOT.

I also want to know why when I change to fullscreen, the text entry is not allowed. What is the problem? How can I solve ???

hi, excellent script works in IE & Firefox in Windows but cant make it work in Firefox and Safari in MAC. Can anyone help? tyvm

Hi guys, what should i do to let it work using actionscript 3.0?

Hi guys, what should i fix so this could work in actionscript 3.0?
thank you

Hi! Thanks!
Super tutorial!

Hello John,
nice tutorial..anyway i am facing a little troubles regarding the browser set up.
As i exec the index file the setup of the showed content is aligned to the left upper corner "TL" as i press the toggle full screen everything goes fine. after going back from full screen everything is fine...i have just the problem with the first show. Please could you help me with this?
Thank you
R
Tomas

Tomas... I just commented out the alignment and adjusted it in the html publish preferences. Works fine for me.

Thanks for the tutorial!

For all the people who can't get this to work in Firefox, add allowFullScreen="true" somewhere inside the embed tag. Firefox doesn't seem to accept parameters declared outside of this tag. My object tag reads as follows:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="400" height="200" id="34-fullscreen" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="movie" value="34-fullscreen.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#cccccc" /><embed src="34-fullscreen.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" width="400" height="200" name="34-fullscreen" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

Obviously, not all of this junk is necessary, but it does work :)

Hi,
Thx for this cool piece of code.
Just a remark: sometimes you need to change the allowFullScreen variable at TWO locations. The first is in the object tag, as mentioned before, the second is in the javascript tag:
<script language="javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js.");
} else {AC_FL_RunContent( (...) 'allowFullScreen', 'true', (...)}
</script>

thank you very much it's working. thanks a lot

it does work on html file but my flash file not set full screen.
whats the problem.

wooow i was looking exactly this !!!

thanks a lot!!
cheers!!

sao tui thay no ko hieu qua gi het. chan, ai la nguoi Viet thi xin comment

is it possible to toggle full screen just a swf embedded in another swf? i have several movie.swf's embedded in my website.swf and i wanted just the movie.swf's to full screen.

I have a SERiOUS PROBLEM...please tell me....ive looked everywhere.....i have adobe flash player...and i simply want to watch a flash movie in fullscreen instead of a tiny box...NO I DONT WANT TO REPROGRAM THE WAY EVERYTHING AND WHATEVER NOT WORKS....is it impossible to just tell this player i want it to fit my screen? or am i RETARDED?

Really dumb question I'm sure - where is "stage" defined?
What is it?

I'm trying to have html links that can resize a movie bewteen 2 set sizes and fullscreen, with javascript - can it be done?

Let me RE ASK that question a day later...I am a mere user who wishes to activate fullscreen mode while watching a certain flash video. I am not a programmer. I dont understand why this flash video has no fking button to allow fullscreen and others do but why is that???...is there some freakin hack that you guys can link me to force fullscreen?

RageMachine, it would be possible if you used your own flash player with a fullscreen button or created a flash file that reads in flash files and can resize them to full screen, neither of which are really simple hacks, since you'd probably want to replace the html as well.

hi, great tutorial! i wanted to know if i could add this allow fullscreen coding into this format:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var fl = new Flash("main.swf", "main", "100%", "100%", "8", "#000000", "");
fl.render();
</script>

Thanks!

The tutorial is great, simple and efficient. But my problem is this: i have a main mc in which I load an external swf.. that is the one for which i'd like to toggle fullscreen. ONLY for this one, the main movie remains unchanged. But when i hit the button it just fullscreens the whole movie. Any suggestions?

Below code should work if using swf object to embed

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">
<a href="http://adobe.com/go/getFlashPlayer">Click to download flash player
</a></div>



<script type="text/javascript">

var so = new SWFObject ("main.swf", "sotester", "760", "540", "8", "#000000");

so.addParam("fullscreen", "true");
so.addParam("scale", "noscale");
so.addParam('salign', 'lt');
so.write("flashcontent");


</script>

Great article !

Is it possible to go full screen and still allow text entry?

I have a fullscreen flash site but when I load it its loading to large and then when i do fullscreen mode its still to big how can I get it to fit inside of the persons screen correctly?

Great question kiruba, and an universal one: "Is it possible to go full screen and still allow text entry?"

Well... looks like: "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 fullscreen mode."

And, in Adobe bugs:

"Not a bug. While in full screen mode, text input is disabled by Flash Player.

For more information, see: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/9/releasenotes.html
[quote]
Although full-screen mode does not support text input, the text input cursor will display over input text fields. Workaround: dynamically convert input fields to dynamic text fields or disable TextInput components when in full-screen mode. (182474)
[/quote]

and: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html
[quote]
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.
[/quote] "

And: "Viva a Pátria, Viva o Benfica! A crise e os Delfins não passarão!" Rui Cubano.

First of all a big THX for this tutorial John!
And to Sean for the final hint to get this working in firefox finally after million times of testing! :D

After publishing your flash file to html change the following things in the html code:
somewhere in the <script language="javascript"> tag, there is a very sneaky line: 'allowFullScreen', 'true',
delete the <noscript> and </noscript> tags (they somehow are rubbish ;)
and replace the complete object part with this:
<object data="Test.swf"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="200" >
<param name="movie" value="Test.swf" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
</object>

i started wondering why the "object"-stuff in the source code from this page worked perfectly fine, while the adobe standard export-code did not.

each time i get the fullscreen off, the swf is centered, but before i do this, is aligned to the left top of the html, does anybody knows how i can fix this? i mean, the concent always centered

nop
i just solve it
put this on the code frame if anybody wants the fs btn centered:

toggleFullScreenButton._x = Stage.width/2;
toggleFullScreenButton._y = Stage.height/2;

am i missing something? in the tut i can't find <script language="javascript"> so i don't have this part of the code!!

i was trying to do what ungabunga says..

i can make it work in IE but not in firefox..

ok, now it works!!! i missed that post from scott in a first reading..

just put: allowFullScreen="true" after allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" in the html file

thx for the tut. works great! cheers

Thanks a lot!

Hey friends, the best web browsers around are..
Firefox, Chrome, IExplorer, Opera, Flock.. Forget netscape..Its outdated.Its next versions will not be released.
The above toggle fullscreen button works well in Firefox, IExplorer,
Flock..But it does not work in Chrome and Opera..

If any one has an idea how to work it in opera n chrome please let me know.May be some javascript may help.
Check the below website .. It has a fullscreen button at the top right corner.

www.kingoftollywood.com

hi .. Please help. I want to use auto fullscreen browser in flash.
Example.. When i click my link, i want to be appear auto fullscreen
browser. Please help me..

Thank you very much!!!
I solve my problem!!!
:DDDDDDD

There is bug with input text field!
Anyone knows how to fix it?

For More Detailed tutorial goto

http://julian.empiregn.com/2007/2/22/How-to-create-true-fullscreen-movies-with-Flash.

I've got it to work, but how do you center the swf file when it is fullscreen? It just displays in the top left, I've tried putting a container but it doesn't seem to work.

> "There is bug with input text field!"

@nele - this is not a bug, the flash player security settings are set so that no keyboard input is allowed in fullscreen mode. (except when run as an air application)
Ru already stated this earlier in the comments.

> "I've got it to work, but how do you center the swf file when it is fullscreen?"

@Nai - If you have your stage align setting set to "TL", it will reposition itself at (0,0). Remove this setting and the flash should align itself centered.

You can also add an event listener to the stage - then you can dynamically position elements on the screen.

Hope this helps,
Natacha

thank you very much, very helpfull and easy to apply!

hi,when i full screen my file is at left side top corner,any way to fix it ? and the button when i full screen,it is at the center,is blocking my file,how can i make it go away? thx this AS really help me a lot ,THX!! but just this problem is bothering me.any one ? need some idea !!!

guys..i dunno y it isn wrking for me...i jus put an invisible button n coded in it...n it simply doesnt wrk..

how do you toggle fullscreen in swishmax1 or swishmax2

I use the command
fscommand("fullscreen", "true");
fscommand("fullscreen", "false");
much simpler ;)

hey, many thanx for this tut. works perfectly in chrome, firefox, safari, explorer, but it wont work in opera, and i realy dont know why. can someone help? anyways, thank you;)


blind

Someone has any idea how to activate the InputText in fullscreen mode?

Or if somehow this can be making new versions of CS3 or CS4 ??

thanks mate!
that worked well.

for those who weren't able to make it, it's like this:
btnFullScreen.onRelease = function():Void{
Stage.displayState = Stage.displayState == "normal" ? "fullscreen" : "normal";
};
//And then in your HTML, set all the allowFullscreen parameters from false to true. Like:
AC_FL_RunContent('allowFullScreen', 'true', ...);
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" ... />
<embed allowFullScreen="true" ... />

And then click the Flash button in the browser. That should work :)

Hey man! Works for me! Awesome.

If you want to put it center stage instead of Top Left "TL" - I just changed the actionscript on the frame to say:

Stage.align = "MM";

Whilst Fullscreen offers a solution to one problem it creates two.

You can not enter text

Any web links you add returns the site to non full screen upon activation. Very sloppy.

As so often with Flash solutions its one step forward two steps back.

Does this work with flash 8?? I've been messing around with a site navigation tool and I want it to be able to go full screen. I'm unable to test it right now. Because you said with the update to the flash PLAYER, I assumed it was possible to use the same code in flash 8 with a newer player. Is this the case? It'd be nice to know before I start majorly rearranging stuff for a full screen mode. Thanks

thanks dude, its really work...

The toggle fullscreen button doesn't work for me on Chrome and Flash 10,0,22,87 in fullscreen mode. The rollover effects don't work either. It's as if no mouse events are being triggered...

Anyone run into this issue? It works fine in FF and IE7.

Ah, works perfectly :]

Oh, and kidjutsu, it doesn't work in Safari either... I hope Adobe solves this problem in the later versions of flash :|

AWESOME - works great! so easy to do! thank you!

Now works in FireFox adding allowFullScreen="true" somewhere inside the embed tag, but keeps not working in Chrome! Any help? tks.

Now works fine in Chrome, but in fullscreen all buttons and form fields stay freeze!

Tanx alot. i thought it works with only CS3 but it's perfect with 8 also. it works fine.

How can i perform this operation in Dreamweaver?
Basically I want a button to click to take my website to fullscreen mode, not open a movie image or anything else just the actual website. I don't have Flash, just DW.
Grateful for any help/advice

thanks alot ....................

Hi,
it work with allowFullScreen="true" after allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
But if you modify the swf and put just a form, you can see that the script doesn't resize the form so all your scene isn't resize.
I'm search a tips to show a full screen flash in html without any borders (right or left) with a 1024px 768px flash document.
Help me, sorry for the message i'm french
Thanks

Can someone tell me how to make other objects in the movie disappear or hide when I go to full screen?

Hi John,
Awesome tut. It has really solved my purpose. I wanted some fullscreen style of this type only as this is latest trend. Thanks a lot...

Keep up the good work and keep rocking!!!

Your Mumbai(India) Friend,
Sagar Ranpise

(Also special thanks to Scott for his valuable comment about firefox Compatibility. Thks. bro...)

Hi Nate,
Add one more layer in fla above all layers and cover up the areas with square or any shapes which u dont want other to see with the same color as ur bg or bg color and export it and check. I hope this will work. Once done please let me know. Take care bye...

With Regards,
Sagar Ranpise

Dang everytime it goes fullscreen my movie is in the top corner off centered help! :O - luis

In answer to Luis' question:

Change Line 2 from:
Stage.scaleMode="false";

to read:
Stage.scaleMode="100%";

hi, do you know how to make part of the flash resize while part of the flash won't resize after it goes fullscreen?
see this link and then skip the opening.
http://hk.promotions.yahoo.com/10th/celebration/

thanks.

this don't work for me

sory it is not working