Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

Ok, so Flash Player has that great option that puts the player full screen, but
if you use a multiple monitor setup and have the full screen on say Monitor 2
and Photoshop on Monitor 1, when you click away from the full screen player on
Monitor 2 to the Program you want to work in, like Photoshop, on Monitor 1 the
Flash Player goes back to normal mode.  There's no way to keep the Flash movie
in full screen mode while working in another program on another monitor.  For
example, I can't watch a full screen painting video tutorial from the web on my
secondary monitor while working in Photoshop on my primary monitor.  This
should definitely be some type of option, but it's not.  Simple multi-monitor
environment recognition should be added to the Flash Player settings.  It would
super helpful because most web based Flash video tutorials are so small to save
on bandwidth and file size usage that they are impossible to see while trying
to follow along within another program.  I really can't believe this wasn't
thought of when they developed this full screen mode.