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By: DCNY

DCNY — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:05:53 +0000

Thanks, this is very helpful.

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:24:42 +0000

@Joshua – Right, keyboard entry is limited in fullscreen, but that’s not the issue with this but. This bug is that in firefox going fullscreen actually fires an event equal to that of the space bar being pressed.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:07:48 +0000

I believe that keyboard entry is limited for security reasons. The reason keyboard input was blocked was to help prevent phishing attacks using Flash, where full-screen is used to simulate a log-in screen, someone else’s website, etc. So there are limits to what you can do in full screen with a keyboard so that the end user is protected from phishers.

By: Thijs Broerse

Thijs Broerse — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:39:14 +0000

I wrote a workaround for this bug:

http://www.tyz.nl/2009/08/25/flash-bug-when-enter-fullscreen-keyboard-events-fired-workaround/

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:29:54 +0000

Yup. Been smashing my head on the desk (keyboard is expensive) for the last few days trying to figure out why my “spaceBar” listeners were running off everytime it went into fullscreen. But just as all AS coders know – if it doesn’t make sense, google it. Its probably a known flash bug. And looks like it is. I haven’t begun thinking of a workaround yet, but i think brian’s should work for me too.

Thanks Evan!

By: Njose

Njose — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:38:32 +0000

Hi Scott, I'm also experiencing the same quite irritating problem so I was wondering whether you've found out how to prevent it from happening..

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:31:04 +0000

@Brian – Thanks! I did think if that, but was hoping to find a non-hack way to solve it. But as you say, it works… and sometimes that’s what we have to do, just make it work.

@Scott – I clicked around in ff3, but the buttons seemed to work fine for me. Isn’t it horrible dealing with browser specific bugs in flash… Good luck!

By: scott

scott — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:47:24 +0000

hey i’m having a weird problem with firefox.. if you try my website, and click around a bit, you’ll see that for some reason the buttons stop working… it happens very rarely in IE8, but ALOT in firefox 3.. any ideas?..

By: Brian Leung

Brian Leung — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:51:38 +0000

I’ve seen this bug and worked around it by removing the spacebar key eventlistener before going fullscreen and then created a timer to add the eventlistener back in half a second. A horrible horrible hack, but it works…