[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.