The SlideShowPro Player can be automatically upscale and take over all of a user's display. This chapter will cover how the SlideShowPro Player 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 the SlideShowPro Player. 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 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: Full Screen Reformat and Full Screen Take Over.
Full Screen Reformat is a toggle to control whether the SlideShowPro Player attempts to load a separate set of images formatted for viewing full screen. When set to "On", the SlideShowPro Player 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. If Director Large Publishing is set to "Full Screen", one set of photos is loaded for both normal and full screen viewing (and thus Full Screen Reformat is ignored).
Full Screen Take Over controls whether the SlideShowPro Player 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 Flash component users who are calling full screen mode (independently) outside of the SlideShowPro player 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.