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Yes, there IS a way to go FULL SCREEN within Storyline player!!!
Since Storyline's inception one of the biggest feature requests has been to allow the player to toggle into Full Screen mode. The request for such a feature is not at all unreasonable considering the amount of text that can be difficult to read on the screen sometimes. There have been countless threads and requests for this feature for over a year. Unfortunately, the closest we've come to getting this feature, other than tweaking the output options which is not always ideal, is through a flash widget that a regular user developed and graciously shared in one of his posts at http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/13833/146378.aspx . Other than trying to force the end-user to manually go full screen via F11 which isn't compatible with all browsers and can also create confusion for the user after the course completes, we are left with having to put in countless feature requests until this is available as it is in Articulate Presenter.
Now comes the interesting discovery I made. Would you believe me if I told you that there is indeed a way to go full-screen within the player by using mouse clicks only. Yes, it is possible (though only in html not html5). I've tested this within several browsers and operating systems and it works perfectly. But since I am more interested in finding out why the Articulate folks did not share this hidden feature with us, I'd rather give them an opportunity to explain the feature for themselves and why they were reluctant to make it known to the community. I think we deserve that much after making numerous requests. Why make it hidden if it works? Surely, someone had to have known it was there. So, why didn't the staff share it with us?
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Ha Pete, you should be in an info commercial. Send me 10 bucks and I'll tell you how to become a millionaire.
- For sure. That will be my next gig if this WikiLeaks thing doesn't pan out for me! : )
Robert Stewart said:
Ha Pete, you should be in an info commercial. Send me 10 bucks and I'll tell you how to become a millionaire.
Hi Pete.
Feel free to share. To be honest, we are not purposefully withholding information so we are just as interested in hearing about your solution.
Thanks.
I just found out what this is. There is leftover debug code that if you mouse click the title 5 times, it will reveal a full screen mode. Since this is debug code, it is unlikely to stay in future versions.
Justin Wilcox said:
I just found out what this is. There is leftover debug code that if you mouse click the title 5 times, it will reveal a full screen mode. Since this is debug code, it is unlikely to stay in future versions.
That's exactly what I discovered! Imagine my surprise when no one had noticed it since Update 1 as I later found out! So why do you plan on removing this feature if this has been requested from so many users? Creating a flash button on the player in place of this debug code so that the user can click once to toggle into full screen mode is exactly what we need! Will this at least be available for the next release?
I have posted an alternate technique on how to toggle into full screen from the SL player using JavaScript here.
Update 5 has since removed the option to access SL content in full-screen mode in flash by clicking on the title 5 times. This could have turned into a much-needed enhancement to the SL player but instead Articulate chose to get rid of it : (
I double clicked and nothing happened. I right clicked and checked "Show All" the content got a little bigger, but defiantly didn't fill the screen.
this is how it looks... http://ccalac.org/files/Storyline/Interactive%20Manual/story.html
This is so frustrating. It seems like that would be a no brainer that we can display our content in full screen. How is it so difficult? I think that Captive does that.
Hi there Leslie.
Am I crazy or this OTHER button just disappeared in the latest update? How can I set it to fill the browser now?
And it's FREE (so far.)
https://elearningenhanced.com/products/fullscreen-articulate-storyline
Does the HTML5 version still work for the solution listed by Paul?:
https://elearningenhanced.com/products/fullscreen-articulate-storyline
When I run the live sample from the website in Chrome, I'm getting a blank window.
