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evanmcd
evanmcd

Reputation: 1969

Full screen flash content on two monitors?

I thought there was a simple way to make Flash content display full-screen on two monitors at once, but I can't seem to recall how to do it.

Searching on the topic is tough because so many people are talking about the ability to keep a full-screen video playing while working on another screen, which is not what I want. I need an app I'm developing at 2880 x 900 to be viewable full-screen across two monitors horizontally.

I've tried

stage.displayState = "fullScreen";

activate from a user click, but it fills only one screen.

I've tried it from within a projector and from a browser with allowFullscreen set to true, and using version 10.2 of the player.

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3668

Answers (3)

evanmcd
evanmcd

Reputation: 1969

As mentioned, it seems unlikely that this is possible at the moment without addons.

What I've ended up doing is creating two distinct projectors that communicate via LocalConnection.

It's working well enough, though I'm hoping that Adobe will build in native support for this at some point in the near future.

Upvotes: 0

Tim Goss
Tim Goss

Reputation: 271

You can do this, but you'll need a third party swf2exe tool. I make a product that lets you do this. SWF Studio lets you enable "multiple monitor support" with a single checkbox in the UI that makes your projector window will fill the entire virtual display when you go fullscreen.

What you do on that large canvas is up to you. If you try to fill the virtual display with video be prepared to pay performance pernalties. That's a lot of screen to cover with video.

See the last checkbox on this screen to enable multiple monitor support http://www.northcode.com/v3/help/index.html?page=User%20Interface_Main%20%20Window%20Tab.html

Upvotes: 0

Pete Ross
Pete Ross

Reputation: 98

Yeah, there is really no way of doing it. Even on other platforms, it really doesn't seem possible. As a constant dual screen user, this would be nice as fullscreen flash is rather buggy... Although in recent months, I have found that while using flash fullscreen, one can use the other screen to work on without the first screen resizing to standard. I am sharing your pain.

Kind Regards,

Peter

Upvotes: 1

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