Brajeshwar

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Enjoy Full Screen Video with the new Full Screen mode in Flash Player 9

With the release of the new updates for Windows and Mac, besides fixing a bunch of bugs, Flash Player 9 will support Full Screen Mode on the web straight out of the browser.

Although full screen mode can be used for any type of Flash application, Flash video applications were the primary use case Adobe focused on in this initial implementation. For this reason, there are a number of security restrictions to full screen mode which may limit its usefulness with some fully interactive Flash applications or games. Adobe plans to address these limitations in future versions of the Flash Player as they continue to develop this feature.

Developers need to understand the following end-user security-related restrictions and design content accordingly. These restrictions apply to the Flash plugin and ActiveX control, but not to the Flash standalone player or Flash projectors.

Another enhancement that was added based on developer feedback is the ADDED_TO_STAGE and REMOVED_FROM_STAGE events to allow a DisplayObject to monitor and know when it can or cannot access its stage property. The ADDED_TO_STAGE event is dispatched to a DisplayObject when it (or the tree in which it is contained) is added to the stage. The REMOVED_FROM_STAGE event is dispatched to a DisplayObject when it (or the tree in which it is contained) is removed from the stage.

The list of reported issues that have been fixed in Update 1. (The numbers in brackets indicate the reported bug number)

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