option for full screen or pop-up

[kabezz]

hi there and happy new year!

I just saw a flash-site (whitecube gallery London) that gave the opportunity to choose for a full screen display before (?) the site is launched. Since it is the flashplayer who can do this i assume there is ActionScripting involved. But how?
Secondly, but related, how come there are not more sites using this option? Are there negative side- effects?

it's been three weeks only that i have started to work with Flash5 and it's an overwhelming experience.

Thanks

[Billy T]

its hard to know what exactly you mean without a link but I doubt there would be any actionscripting involved

the 2 buttons (full screen and popup) would just open different HTML files or would trigger different javascripts - probably opening the same swf in both.

[kabezz]

sorry, this is the site:

http://www.whitecube.com/flash.html

if it's an HTML adaptation for the flashplayer, could you tell me what this would be? Thanks already for your fast reply

[Billy T]

look at view source on the page

in the head there is a javascript that contains a couple of different functions

fullscreen
and
popup

both buttons load the same page (html/sting.html) but in different sized windows (ie they each call a different function in the javascript)

cheers

[kabezz]

Of course... thanks a lot! I'm sorry for this, but i can't promise it will be the last obvious question. Congrats on a great site and forum guys! One day you'll get either an Oscar or a Nobelprize...
Any preferences?

[tg]

one reason you don't see more of this is the full screen effect only works in ie/pc.

its also really annoying when the designer doesn't give the user the option to get out of fullscreen... this happens way to often.

[kabezz]

all my questions answered. Thanxs