Both the ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 versions of SlideShowPro for Flash offer the option of presenting your slideshow in full screen mode. This chapter will cover how SlideShowPro enters / exits full screen, the options available to you, and additional information concerning player support and embedding.
There are four ways to enter/exit full screen mode in SlideShowPro for Flash. One is through the full screen button at the far right of the navigation, the second is by setting the CONTENT AREA/Action parameter to "Toggle Full Screen" and then clicking inside the "action" zone of the Content Area, the third is by pressing the "F" key when the SWF has focus (and if OPTIONS/Keyboard Control is set to "On"), and the fourth is by calling the enterFullScreenDisplayState() method with ActionScript. In all instances, full screen mode must be initiated by the end-user through a mouse click. The Flash Player does not permit SWFs to start in full screen mode.
There are two options related to full screen that control the component's behavior: OPTIONS/Full Screen Reformat and OPTIONS/Full Screen Take Over.
Full Screen Reformat is a toggle to control whether SlideShowPro attempts to load a separate set of images formatted for viewing full screen. When set to "On", SlideShowPro will either look for alternate full screen content assigned through your XML file (see Creating slideshow content: full screen images for instructions), or will request full screen images from SlideShowPro Director (note: DIRECTOR/Large Publishing must be set to "On", which it is by default, in order for full screen reformat requests to be handled). When set to "Off", SlideShowPro doesn't request new images when entering full screen mode and simply re-uses the same images used in "normal" mode.
Full Screen Take Over controls whether SlideShowPro scales to fill the end-user's display when full screen mode is entered. Most people will leave this set to "On", but we include this toggle for those who are calling full screen mode (independently) outside of SlideShowPro and wish to keep the Stage visible.
One of the quirks about full screen mode with the Flash Player is that support for it is not turned on by default. To grant support, permission has to be given through the player embed code. For information on how to publish an HTML document from Flash that supports full screen, see Enabling full screen mode for instructions.