Displaying full-screen windows

Setting the displayState property of the Stage to StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE places the window in full-screen mode, and keyboard input is permitted in this mode. (In SWF content running in a browser, keyboard input is not permitted). To exit full-screen mode, the user presses the Escape key.

Note: Some Linux window managers will not change the window dimensions to fill the screen if a maximum size is set for the window (but do remove the window system chrome).

For example, the following Flex code defines a simple AIR application that sets up a simple full-screen terminal:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="https://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
    layout="vertical"
    applicationComplete="init()" backgroundColor="0x003030" focusRect="false">
    <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
        private function init():void
        {
            stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;
            focusManager.setFocus(terminal);
            terminal.text = "Welcome to the dumb terminal app. Press the ESC key to exit..\n";
            terminal.selectionBeginIndex = terminal.text.length;
            terminal.selectionEndIndex = terminal.text.length;
        }
    ]]>
    </mx:Script>
    <mx:TextArea
        id="terminal"
        height="100%" width="100%"
        scroll="false"
        backgroundColor="0x003030"
        color="0xCCFF00"
        fontFamily="Lucida Console"
        fontSize="44"/>
</mx:WindowedApplication>

The following ActionScript example for Flash simulates a simple full-screen text terminal:

import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageDisplayState;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFormat;

public class FullScreenTerminalExample extends Sprite
{
    public function FullScreenTerminalExample():void
    {
        var terminal:TextField = new TextField();
        terminal.multiline = true;
        terminal.wordWrap = true;
        terminal.selectable = true;
        terminal.background = true;
        terminal.backgroundColor = 0x00333333;

        this.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN_INTERACTIVE;

        addChild(terminal);
        terminal.width = 550;
        terminal.height = 400;

        terminal.text = "Welcome to the dumb terminal application. Press the ESC key to exit.\n_";

        var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
        tf.font = "Courier New";
        tf.color = 0x00CCFF00;
        tf.size = 12;
        terminal.setTextFormat(tf);

        terminal.setSelection(terminal.text.length - 1, terminal.text.length);
    }
}