I want to get several Flash animations to come up on different displays at start up. Is there a way in Actionscript that I can force the movie to go fullscreen on a particular display?
Package your flash animations into AIR applications - you can then set the x,y of each application within the properties box / xml.
Flash Player chooses which monitor to full-screen to. If there is a solution, it is not AS3.
"Flash Player and AIR use a metric to determine which monitor contains the greatest portion of the SWF, and uses that monitor for full-screen mode."
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Why does the resolution of the graphics that I use for my flash game degrades when I run the game, though the graphics seems great when it is in the development environment???
Two possible reasons: Either your bitmaps aren't set to allow smoothing and they're being scaled or rotated. To fix that you can simply find them in your library, open their properties and check bitmap smoothing.
Or your flash player is set to low quality. In which case you just need to right click on the stage, go to quality, and change that to high.
Another possibility is in the publishing settings; In Flash, go to File > Publish Settings. Set the JPG Quality to 100.
I need to be able to continue rendering a SWF file whilst it is off screen or minimized. Taken from the adobe website: "This is an automatic feature in Flash Player since version 10.1. Flash Player minimizes processing when SWF content goes off-screen."
I have extensively searched around for a solution on this. One solution suggested was to use the HTML parameter "hasPriority" and set it to true which will ensure some things are not paused. SWF content will stop rendering regardless of this when off screen or hidden.
Does anyone know if it is possible to disable this automatic feature so my SWF will continue to render off screen?
Thanks in advance for any help.
The flash virtual machine is specifically designed so that, while viewing flash in the browser, the VM is paused when the instance of the player loses window focus. This is necessary functionality in order to... well.. keep flash from utterly destroying your computer, forcing it catch ablaze and send it to the computer underworld. Just imagine what would happen if you had 3-4 flash sites open and rendering off screen on your tablet. It would die a horrible death. You cannot override this functionality.
Is it possible to make a flash player go full screen (not in browser)?
Would there be any bug / error on different version of Flash player?
HI!
stage.displayMode = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
Available only in Adobe AIR.
It allows you to listen to keyboard events (meaning you can also type inside text boxes etc..)
stage.displayMode = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
Available in any AS3 based flash file (starting from flash 9)
There is no issue with using it, except you cannot use the keybard.
From my experience with fullscreen mode's in flash the main thing to bear in mind is to make your application have liquid layouts which re-act to the Event.RESIZE. Then when you listen for that event re-lay out your application to the new ( fullscreen ) width and height.
To do this you would change the stage.displayMode to StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN
In Flash player it's Ctrl-F, as menu suggests, so it's certainly possible. Have you tried stage.displayMode = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE? StageDisplayState doc says it's here from version 9.0.28.0.
I've developed a system that uses SWFUpload to easily allow the user to upload multiple files with a progress bar showing them the upload progress. It all works fine in my development environment, but is failing for some users in the wild with the Flash movie not loading. I can see the Flash movie is there, if I right click it a window appears saying Movie not loaded... (Then on the next line) About Adobe Flash Player 10...
So far I've not been able to determine what was causing the failure.
Are there any other alternatives to SWFUpload that will allow for:
Upload progress bar
Allow multiple uploads
Alternatively, any ideas on the cause of the SWFUpload issue?
Here are a few:
http://valums.com/ajax-upload/ (No flash required)
http://www.uploadify.com/ (jQuery)
http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/3-0/showcase/photoqueue/ (mootools)
Since flash doesn't allow keyboard input while in fullscreen mode I'm wondering if there is a workaround to that?
I have a flash that is going to run fullscreen in a browser and needs different kinds of keyboard input. I have read something about AIR, but I don't fully understand it and would like another way if thats even possible.
Anybody knows?
public function setFullScreen():void
{
this.width = Capabilities.screenResolutionX;
this.height = Capabilities.screenResolutionY;
this.stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
this.stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
this.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
}
Use the FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE
This is now possible in Flash Player 11.3+
Simply compile your application to support a minimum version of 11.3.0 and it will work if you use:
stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
in your html you must put:
<param name="allowFullScreenInteractive" value="true" />
you will see a prompt when you enter full screen:
you can see an example on this official adobe blog:
http://www.leebrimelow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/overlay.gif
It is not possible to get input key with fullscreen mode within the browser.
Air is only for desktop application so if your application have to work into the browser no Air for you.
If you have to get input into fullscreen mode you can try to make a virtual keyboard (an example) and user will use the mouse to press the keyboard key.
It actually is possible in Flash 10, but only for a few keys. See this page:
Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10
Flash Player 9 does not allow keyboard
input when displaying content in
full-screen mode. Flash Player 10
changes this, allowing for a limited
number of keys to be usable in
full-screen mode. These include Tab,
the Spacebar, and the (up, down, left,
right) arrow keys.
Another option is to just use the browser's built-in fullscreen capability. All major browsers offer it as far as I know (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc). Usually it's under View->Fullscreen, hotkey F11. Depending on the browser it will either give you the entire screen, or maybe leave a small bar across the top/bottom. Then you simply need to make your flash application expand to fill the entire HTML page.
Patrick is right. Due to security risks, your going to have a tough time getting your goal met. Adobe AIR is your best solution and will be easy to achieve in your state.
Here is a great video to get your started from Lee Brimelow. http://theflashblog.com/?p=403 (Building AIR Applications in Flash CS3)
Since AIR applications are built right in Flash or Flex, all you will need to do is configure how your application compiles, and you have yourself a Adobe AIR application capable of utilizing the keyboard while running as a cross platform desktop application.
Ahh, AIR is not for browsers? Too bad. Seems like I won't be able to get everything I wish for :p I have functions for the most important things without the keyboard functions, but I would really like them all of course.
I'll look into Silverlight then and see if thats an option.
Thanks guys! :)