Question

I have a website which is built totally in flex.

I want to make a button, on the click of which the browser becomes fullscreen. I am not talking about a flex fullscreen, by which i mean “Application.application.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;” I dont want to use this.

The reason, I dont want to use it is, that flash does not supports keyboard on flex-fullscreen. But if i can make the browser fullscreen, it will solve my purpose.

Also i am hoping the same method will be good for all browsers on PC and Mac both.

Answer 1

Use ExternalInterface to call a javascript function for it. Sorry this solution is half-baked so I’m not 100% sure it works..

//In ActionScript
public function fullScreen():void
{
  if (ExternalInterface.available) 
  {
    ExternalInterface.call("fullScreen");
  } 
  else
  {
    //Error
  }
}
//In JavaScript
function fullScreen()
{
  if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) {
    moveTo(0,0);
    resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);
  }
  //on older browsers just leave it alone
}