Flex Full Screen

Hi,
I was hoping to add some functionality to my application to enable the user to open it in full screen mode to free up some real estate. Getting to full screen mode is working fine but I was a bit surprised to see that all keyboard interaction (bar the esc function) is disable in full screen mode.
Out of curiosity, whats the rationale behind this? Is it a security issue? Can people be tricked into not being able to close full screen or something?
Is this configurable?
Its a bit annoying. Flex is for building RIA's, most of which would require user interaction. The keyboard is a major source of interaction. SUrely it would have been better to solve whatever problem requires this "hack" in favour of just disabling the functionality?!?!

Had a feeling it was that. Its a real shame in my opinion that instead of trying to overcome the issue in some way, the functioanlity is instead removed.
I had a bit of a look around and Silverlight for example has a "trusted" sites option. Surely something like that would be better than just an alomost blanket disabling of keyboard functionality. Like I said flex was built with user interaction in mind. Granted it runs on the flash player which also serves other purposes but...

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[svn:fx-trunk] 12816: VideoPlayer full screen bug fix

Revision: 12816
Revision: 12816
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-10 16:19:26 -0800 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
VideoPlayer full screen bug fix
SDK-24308 - Full-screen VideoPlayer running as AIR application on dual monitor setup has white background
If we are running on the AIR Player, then use the Screen bounds API instead.
QE notes: None
Doc notes: None
Bugs: SDK-24308
Reviewer: Ryan
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Ticket Links:
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    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24308
Modified Paths:
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