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Home Forums Silverlight Programming Report a Silverlight Bug Mac OS X full screen mode doesn't work correctly on second monitor
4 replies. Latest Post by vanceg on December 28, 2008.
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willco007
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11-18-2008 2:35 AM |
if you put a movie into full screen mode on a second monitor, it will go full screen on your main monitor instead. 1) plug in a second display on your mac 2) goto netflix.com and select a 'watch instantly' movie and load it up (or some other movie site that allows full screen mode) 3) move your browser window onto the second display 4) start playing the movie and then press the full screen button result: it goes full screen on your main monitor expect: it to go full screen on the second monitor...aka, the monitor were the browser window is located.
Jonathan...
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11-20-2008 9:18 AM |
Hi Willco007,
Somebody has reported this. Similar behavior is on Windows systems too. It is a kind of design issue. Silverlight plugin usually hosted on a page, when it is maximized to full screen, it covers the other contents. Therefore, the better way is to display the content and video in different displays. I have misunderstood you, please feel free to let me know.
Best regards,
Jonathan.
srobadelic
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11-26-2008 2:03 AM |
On other non-plugin apps, the solution is to have preferences available to change the default display for full screen. It would be great to be able to set this preference.
vanceg
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12-28-2008 5:22 PM |
Yes, there really needs to be a way to connect a second monitor and have "Full Screen" mode work on this second monitor. Right now, I can have my main browser window on my second monitor and can be watching a video using Silverlight in that browser window just fine. When I click the "Full Screen" button, I would expect that the video would then fill the screen of the second monitor. Instead, the video jumps over to my main monitor, leaving an empty browser window sitting on my second monitor. The "proper" behavior would be to have "Full Screen" mode fill which ever screen the browser window that contains the Silverlight video is currently on. Note that if I move my Mac toobar over to my second monitor (thus defining my second monitor as my primary screen) the Silverlight full screen mode will now fill this second monitor....but this is not a viable solution for the issue: there may be many circumstances in which users want to have access to their computer while they watch a full screen video on another display. Might it be possible to have this change made in a soon-to-appear update to the Silverlight plugin? Thank you.
Whoops - posted twice. Attempting to delete second post. Excuse the slip.
Mac OS X full screen mode doesn't work correctly on second monitor