I know Adobe has heard an earful on this, but I'd like to stress it again since the issue has again been raised:
Fullscreen mode without keyboard support is virtually worthless for almost any app other than playing fullscreen video. Now, I understand that fullscreen video is the primary reason for inclusion of this functionality. Fine. But Adobe needs to pay some serious attention to the world of online games which heavily use the Flash platform. Fullscreen games would be huge, but without keyboard support it simply won't happen. Fullscreen web apps like Picnik would be huge, but without keyboard support its limiting. I think the security requirement that an app can only go to fullscreen inside of a mouse or keyboard event is perfect. I think the security requirement that the ESCAPE key will *always* take the user out of the fullscreen is fine. I'd even be fine with the Flash Player popping open a confirmation dialog when the user wanted to go fullscreen just to be sure (with a corresponding "always for this website" option, just like popup blockers). But preventing all keyboard usage? It just renders fullscreen a completely worthless feature for our products. We would embrace it and brag about it and usher in some spectacular web-based experiences only possible because of the Flash platform, but simply won't be able to because we need a minimum amount of keyboard functionality (filling in a few forms, cursor keys, etc.). AIR isn't the answer for us as the whole reason we've gone with the Flash platform is the instant accessibility (no downloads). Please, please, please Adobe... please give us keyboard access in fullscreen! Please! Troy. On 9/14/07, Nick Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Within the browser, no, but within AIR, yes. Since the Adobe AIR runtime > sandbox extends to the local desktop, you can access the file system, and > you can run full screen while still being able to use the keyboard and text > inputs. > > On 9/14/07, Yigit Boyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > yeah; it is sth that annoyed me; like years ago the removal of file > > access at flash. (i guess it was flash 4 to 5) > > > > anyway; security comes first of course, but there must be a way to > > enable these options, like a certificate or sth else.. > > adobe? > > Charlie Skinner wrote: > > > > Could anyone shed any light on what exactly the security issues are > > with Full Screen Mode? > > > > > > > > I was really excited about this functionality when I first read about > > it. But on further exploration I discover that: > > > > > > > > *Users cannot enter text in text input fields while in full-screen mode. > > All keyboard input and key-related ActionScript is disabled while in > > full-screen mode, with the exception of the keyboard shortcuts that take the > > viewer out of full-screen mode.* > > > > * * > > > > I'm working on a large CMS in Flex and not being able to use the > > keyboard or text input boxes makes the application pretty pointless. > > > > > > > >
