Automatically run full screen?

Question

My Captivate simulation has to be run full screen. Rather
than having a page with links where the learner can click, the
links must be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation (I know, I
know, but that's what they want). My client wants to avoid having
the Internet Explorer window open with a "Click here ... full
screen" link. I can think of know way to put that in a PPT file, so
I'm wondering if anyone has made the IE window redirect to the full
screen version with a re-direct code (or something) to
automatically launch the simulation in full screen. (Whew! Does
that make sense?)
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi LJezsik and welcome to the forums!
Full screen in the browser is only available by opening a new
window (hence the "Full Screen" link) or by embedding a custom
ActiveX control.
I'd rule out the ActiveX option, since it's both technically
challenging (I saw it done once, but don't know how) and would only
work for Internet Explorer anyhow.
That leaves the new window approach. A redirect is not an
option... the "full screen" can only be applied while a window is
first opening and even then only when the window is opened by
Javascript.
The best you could hope for is to open a page that
immediately opens another page in full screen, adding some verbiage
to the first page that says something like "The content has opened
in a new window. It is safe to close this window".
A sample "autolauncher" page is included below as an example.
It does not make use of the window.open() method's "fullscreen"
parameter since in IE6 that does not seem to give the user a way of
closing the new window once it's open. You can easily change this
by setting the parameter to yes in the code below.