Changes to stage.displayState: Where's the event? (Flash, AS3)

Question

What event should I be looking for (on the stage:Stage, I suppose) to get changes to the stage.displayState?

Answer 1

this works

stage.addEventListener(Event.FULLSCREEN, doThisOnChange);

for both full screen and normal changes. In your doThisOnChange method, you can figure out which you're in by looking at if (stage.displayState == StageDisplayState.NORMAL) { etc....

Answer 2

As long as your SWF is not embedded in HTML you should be fine. There are some additional hacks that you'd need to get HTML wrappers to work.

From the documentation:

You can use the Stage class's fullScreen event to detect and respond when full-screen mode is turned on or off. For example, you might want to reposition, add, or remove items from the screen when entering or leaving full-screen mode, as in this example: