How to set a video play to full-screen mode in a flash web site?

Question

In my flash site there is a video player that I want to have an option of switching into full-screen mode. It's the video player that needs to be set to full screen, not the whole stage. How would I go about this?

Answer 1

In the HTML containing the Flash movie, you need to set allowFullScreen to true.

Then, within Flash, after a user clicks a button or presses a key you need to set stage.displaystate = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html

Answer 2

You need to set the stage.fullScreenSourceRect property before changing to full screen mode:

stage.fullScreenSourceRect = new Rectangle(0,0,320,240);

That is the example given in the docs, but it will do what you want. Its a pretty neat function too as it enables hardware supported scaling if the users computer supports it.