A ferris wheel in Puebla.

There’s a plaque with Dickinson poem right outside the ICA.

There’s an awesome view of the Prudential Building at the Lechmere Station in Cambridge.

Full-screen flash has been available with projector files and the stand alone flash player for a long time. What’s exciting here is that this is now possible to with the browser plugin. You can check it out by clicking on the little monitor button on my header. If you can’t see it, you might need to clear your cache.

It turns out that this very easy to do. First, you need to pass the parameter “allowFullScreen” set to true to flash on your object and embed tags. My HTML looks like this:

<object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0″ width=”100%” height=”200″>
<param name=”movie” value=”/assets/headers/flashHeader.swf” />
<param name=”quality” value=”high” />
<param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” />
<embed src=”/assets/headers/flashHeader.swf” allowFullScreen=”true” quality=”high” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”100%” height=”200″></embed>
</object>

In your actionscript , you need to have the code:

Stage[”displayState”] = “fullScreen”;

If you want to be able to write:

Stage.displayState = “fullScreen”;

you have to add the “displayState” property to your Stage class file so that the compiler doesn’t bitch at you.

Full screen will only work if it’s triggered by a mouseClick or a keyPress (it would suck if someone was able to take over your screen just by visiting a site), so you should be ok if you put the code inside on(release) or a keyboard listener.

Of course, video applications will be the first to embrace this. For a good example, try this link: http://www.flashcomguru.com/apps/fullscreen_player9/fullscreen.html

For more information check out the Adobe page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html