Filemaker Window Calc Full Screen

[hartmut]

Hi I would like to know if there is a way to make the window for filemaker full screen for any monitor? I would like to automate playing a youtube video full screen but I think filemaker has to be full screen first. Thoughts about this and possible solutions and discussions are appreciated.

Maybe there is a url to make youtube video go full screen on any monitor. I am not sure. Thank you

[jamesducker]

Use a button or script step "adjust window": one of the options is Maximise.

Alternatively you can play with the move/resize window step, the values for full screen being:

Top: 0

Left: 0

Bottom: get(screenheight)

Right: get(screenwidth)

Note that this is one of those things that behaves differently on Windows from Mac, so you should test carefully on both platforms if you are planning to use it on Windows too.

I don't see how maximising FileMaker will help with playing YouTube videos, though. Are you looking at YouTube through a web viewer? Depending on what you are looking to achieve you could use Curl or similar to get the .flv file embedded in the YouTube page, then an AppleScript to play it in some stand-alone player at full screen. With a bit of tinkering, both of these things could be called from within FileMaker.

Hope that helps.

James

[hartmut]

Thanks for your help James

I am using the web viewer. It would be nice if filemaker could call a HD movie on Youtube and display it full screen. I can see how applescript will do it. But I then don't know how to handle it on windows. Maybe Youtube will see fit to make a URL address to help this happen in the future.

[Lee Smith]

I tested this using a web viewer and if you anchor it and use James's suggestion, it will adjust to the full screen (I combined the two steps, and it seem to work ok). However, I also noted that if you click on the full window option in Youtube, it will fill your screen without needing to adjust your FileMaker Window.

Am I missing something here?

Lee

Edited November 11, 2009 by Guest