Flash is designed to not let you use full screen while it doesn't have focus. Probably to keep web pages from taking over your desktop. I can't speak for silverlight, but flash will: Always close fullscreen on ESC Always mention the ESC key on fullscreen Always close when it loses focus Never initiate via a button press (only a mouse click) Require a user to initialize (flash can't start fullscreen without a mouse click) It is possible to change one of the DLL files flash uses with a hex editor to keep it open. The exact steps to change the DLL changes with every flash version. Here is a You Tube link, but for those who find watching a 30 second video to obtain a pragraph of text horrendously inefficient, here is a (paraphrased) transcript. Find NPSWF32.dll (possibly at C:\ Windows\ System32\macromed\ Flash pswf32.dll In version change 0x136340 from 74 to EB In version 9 it's 0x C1487 In version it's 0x137349 This will probably break on every flash upgrade.
This does make sense, though the debugging of Full Screen mode needs to be taken into accout as well.currently its very difficult to debug Full Screen mode without dual monitors. Both good suggestions. Many people run multiple monitors ( I do) but the majority of people only have one, and so much of the current experience has been optimized around keeping things simple and respecting the needs of a person with a single monitor. 1 was chosen because it turns out to be surprisingly tricky to tell what monitor the user intended to run in full screen mode (lots of corner cases) & so we decided to go with the straightforward solution of just using the primary display. For 2, the problem is security - you don't want to prevent a user from being able to get out of full-screen mode via [esc], [alt-tab/command-tab], etc. - lots of corner cases there as well. thanks for the feedback! - Tom I don't think it's that tricky. Take Windows Media Player for example. This application behaves exactly like i described it. Fullscreen on the monitor where the player window is in normal state, exit fullscreen on [alt-tab] only if the new active window is (at least partially) on the same monitor as the fullscreen video. And with [esc] you can also exit fullscreen mode. So it can be done! hello, i would also appreciate this feature. a lot of people are already using 2 monitors especially in companys! a second reason why it would be great to have this function - and that's my problem right now - is the problem that occurs if you want to present a show on a beamer I agree with you 100%, all my client's have dual / quad screens with many apps running. The whole purpose is to be able to multi-task and after all, is that not what Windows environment is supposed to be all about? Well i belive when working on web. every thing is dependent on the web browser. either we use ie or firrefox. the only.
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