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fcharrie at yahoo

Feb 14, 2008, 12:54 AM

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Fullscreen and flash, new question

Hi everyone,

as Carlos Pinto, I want to display my Flash application in fullscreen
mode.

I tried the --full-screen option of the command line, but I still have
problems :

1) when I launch the browser with the --full-screen option, during a
few seconds, I can see the browser in a normal display mode. After 3-4
seconds, it goes to fullscreen mode. Is there a way to display the
browser ONLY when it is in fullscreen mode ?

2) About the address field at the bottom of the screen, is there a way
to force it hidden without any user action ? By example, by changing an
option in a file ?

About the first question, I'm thinking for instance about a C program
which run the browser, hide it, wait 4 seconds, and display it again...

Thank you,
Frédéric

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josh.soref at nokia

Feb 14, 2008, 1:50 AM

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RE: Fullscreen and flash, new question [In reply to]

Frédéric wrote:
> I tried the --full-screen option of the command line, but I still have
> problems :
>
> 1) when I launch the browser with the --full-screen option, during a
> few seconds, I can see the browser in a normal display mode. After 3-4
> seconds, it goes to fullscreen mode. Is there a way to display the
> browser ONLY when it is in fullscreen mode ?

I'm fairly certain this is just a bug (I'm not certain there's actually a report for this in bugs.maemo.org, there should be if there isn't).

> 2) About the address field at the bottom of the screen, is there a way
> to force it hidden without any user action ? By example, by
> changing an
> option in a file ?

~/.browser
Full_Screen=false
Norm_Screen=false

The browser should not be running while you try to change these (or any other) settings.

> About the first question, I'm thinking for instance about a C program
> which run the browser, hide it, wait 4 seconds, and display
> it again...
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dufkaf at seznam

Feb 14, 2008, 1:51 AM

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Re: Fullscreen and flash, new question [In reply to]

Frédéric Charrier wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> as Carlos Pinto, I want to display my Flash application in fullscreen
> mode.
>

Instead of workarounds you mentioned it could be done via custom
application that just embeds browser engine and flash plugin like the
getting started tutorial present on the device. Or even custom (browser)
engine with enough hooks to just embed the flash plugin without full
html rendering widget would be nice for saving free memory.

Frantisek
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jhkukkon at cc

Feb 14, 2008, 3:33 AM

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Re: Fullscreen and flash, new question [In reply to]

Frédéric Charrier wrote:
>
> 2) About the address field at the bottom of the screen, is there a way
> to force it hidden without any user action ? By example, by changing an
> option in a file ?

Josh mentioned .browser already. I just wanted to add a piece of advice:
Don't even think about modifying browser settings from your
application. Your users will hate you for that. Embedding the mozilla
engine is a better solution if you really want total control of the UI.

Jussi
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joshua at willowisp

Feb 14, 2008, 10:53 AM

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Re: Fullscreen and flash, new question [In reply to]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:33:27 +0200, Jussi Kukkonen <jhkukkon [at] cc>
wrote:
> FrÃ©dÃ©ric Charrier wrote:
>>
>> 2) About the address field at the bottom of the screen, is there a way
>> to force it hidden without any user action ? By example, by changing an
>> option in a file ?
>
> Josh mentioned .browser already. I just wanted to add a piece of advice:
> Don't even think about modifying browser settings from your
> application. Your users will hate you for that. Embedding the mozilla
> engine is a better solution if you really want total control of the UI.

As a user.... +1
never modify core settings like that.

j.

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josh.soref at nokia

Feb 17, 2008, 11:46 PM

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RE: Fullscreen and flash, new question [In reply to]

Jussi wrote:
> Josh mentioned .browser already. I just wanted to add a piece
> of advice:
> Don't even think about modifying browser settings from your
> application. Your users will hate you for that. Embedding the mozilla
> engine is a better solution if you really want total control
> of the UI.

Oh yes. I should have said that, and I'd like to thank Jussi for noting
it.

Your programs should *never* make changes to these files (a package
which clearly only changes a single setting which a user must manually
install individually is different). Users absolutely do not expect it,
and the results are always bad.

I'm usually fairly good about yelling at developers internally who
indicate some plan to change browser files (or bookmarks files), and I
think I did tell people on this list not to do it in other threads. I'm
sorry if anyone got the idea that changing these files was somehow an
endorsed or reasonable idea.
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