[AS2] projector fullscreen - content disappears!

[vincelee888]

evening all

i'm creating a windows projector file in actionscript 2, and playing it in flash player 9.

when i run it, and press ctrl+F, all the content disappears!

even with a simple test with a rectangle on stage, it just shows a blank screen when fullscreen - its fine when in normal window size.

i've tried a few fixes on here, but weren't sure they were relevant to this particular problem...


cheers

[vincelee888]

will this solution help (before i go about messing with my player version...)? http://www.northcode.com/blog.php/2008/03/16/Problem-with-Fullscreen-Flash-Projectors

[northcode]

Going back to an older Flash player might work but the only way I can see that helping is if the newer player uses hardware acceleration and the older one doesn't.

That would also mean that your machine has some video hardware that the Flash player doesn't like. Does the same EXE fail on other machines or just yours?

I can't think of anything else that would explain why your content would disappear, especially with a "no code" test movie with fixed graphics.

[ivraditz]

I'm having this exact problem, though with AS3. For us that the blank screen happens only on a pc running vista 64 bit and a mac running xp in parrells. "normal" pc's are running the projector fullscreen just fine.

Right clicking in the projector shows that Flash player 9.

Have tried StageScaleMode, StageAlign in all possible combinations with no luck.

[northcode]

The flash player is a 32-bit application so it might be a bit wonky on a 64-bit system where the hardware acceleration would have to be supported by the WOW layer. I'm guessing problms in XP on Parallels is a similar situation, emulation of hardware acceleration is probably not going to work that well. Just a guess.

[porkfryrice]

So i've been creating windows projector files all day trying to determine what the problem is. Using AS2 fscommand fullscreen, i can make it work on my authoring machine but when I emailed it to the rest of my group (all running the same computer but different from my authoring machine), all they get are blank (Background) screens.

Clicking on the projector's properties and under the Compatibility tab, i enabled 256 colors just for kicks and it worked. But viewing my flash movie in 256 colors was not an option.

I went into the pc's graphic properties and changed the color quality to 16 Bit...and lo and behold, that worked.

Is there a way to force my flash projector to run in 32 Bit? Changing my client's graphic hardware every time is not an option.

[northcode]

There are ways to change the resolution temporarily but you'll need s third party tool to do it. In my product, SWF Studio, you can use the Desktop.changeResolution (http://www.northcode.com/v3/help/index.html?page=ssCore_Desktop_changeResolution.ht ml) function to change the screen size and color depth and it will revert to normal when the app ends (or you can restore it any time you like).