Exit browser full screen mode when F11 is hit while Flash object is active?

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Exit browser full screen mode when F11 is hit while Flash object is active?

Hey,

I have a 100% width and height flash object in my site. Activating and exiting browser full screen mode with F11 only works as long the user didn't click the Flash movie. And I doubt many users know they have to click the address bar to enable F11 after using a (browser) full screen Flash movie.

Is there any way I can enable F11 to work if the Flash object is active?

Thanks, Jan

No, for security reasons Adobe disable all keyboard events while in full-screen mode, you still have full mouse events, but the only key that can change the full-screen mode back to windowed mode is the ESC key.

When switching to full-screen mode a transparent message shows up briefly explaining this before fading away.

jolyonruss 2010-04-15 12:55:18

His flash app isn't in full screen mode, the browser is full screen and the app is using the full browser size.

ck 2010-04-15 12:56:35

@ck is right. Thanks.

Jan P. 2010-04-15 20:21:53

F11 is a WindowsOS specific keyboard shortcut and shouldn't really be relied on for what you are describing.I imagine that the reason it's not working when the user clicks on the Flash is that Flash is taking focus, the same thing will happen with the scroll-wheel.My suggestion would be to create a maximise button in your Flash that calls a JavaScript function through ExternalInterface to increase the windows size like this:window.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height);

jolyonruss 2010-04-16 16:15:01

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