Creating full-screen Flex applications

Full-Screen Mode in Flex. I’ve seen this appear a few times in the bugbase and on lists, but here is some simple code to let you toggle between “full screen mode” and “normal mode” in a Flex application. Note that in this example I’m listening for the applicationComplete event in the main tag instead of thecreationComplete event. The applicationComplete tag is called slightly after the creationComplete event, after the Application has been completely initialized.

If you try and access the Application.application.stage property from the creationComplete event, you’ll get a run-time error (RTE) saying the following: