Full screen windows media player

Question

Greetings - I am having issues trying to open a .wmv file
full-screen. I am simply using:
on mouseUp
baOpenFile( the moviePath & "01.wmv" , "maximized" )
end
I have made several attempts to at code to make sure it opens
in full-screen, but found no simple solution. I am running dual
monitors and this will open up in the second monitor within the WMP
- full screen.
Thanks all -
bS

Answer 1

Hmmm … maximizing the application isn’t exactly
the same as full screen playback (ie: without all the interface
elements). If you want to maximize the application on a given
monitor the following might work:
Open media player in normal mode
Use baMoveWindow to place the player on the monitor of your
choice
Use baSetWindowState to maximize
You could use baMoveWindow to both move the window and make
it full screen although I don’t think the OS will recognize
the window as being maximized.
To use Buddy API’s window functions you’ll need
the WinHandle for your media player window … look closely at
baFindWindow and/or baWindowList … these functions I have
used. Make sure you use the window title to find the handle, using
the class is dangerous because there is no guarantee that media
player will be the default player for wmv on any given system.
If your projector is windowed and can be dragged by the user,
and if you want to identify which monitor shares the greatest area
with the projector stage I wrote the following function. Works fine
with single monitor systems. Note that if the user somehow manages
to push the projector off all screens the primary monitor is
returned. I’m not sure what will happen if you call the
function while the projector is minimized (not possible in my use).
I suspect the primary monitor would be returned but I’ve
never tested that, it all depends on what the value of
_movie.stage.rect is when the application is minimized. If
it’s rect(0,0,0,0) there’s no problem, if it’s
void the following code would need to be modified to check the
application state first.