Question

I have an embedded Flash movie player. I’m also using Timeout Dialog to set a timer that has a popup which will warn people before they are automatically logged off. The session timeout dialog does not display on top of the full screen mode Flash player so even if people are watching the Flash player they are not warned they are about to get logged off.

Using alert() breaks people out of the full screen mode but it isn’t very attractive. Are there any other hacks?

Answer 1

Define a function exitFullScreenin Flash to exit fullscreen mode and do this in Flash:

import flash.external.ExternalInterface;

if (ExternalInterface.available) ExternalInterface.addCallback("exitFullScreen", exitFullScreen);

Then you can invoke exitFullScreen on the flash object in JavaScript.

see: ExternalInterface Reference