Flowplayer: Control bar won’t reappear after Fullscreen and the Fix

Was just working with a strange bug in Flowplayer — after going full screen, the Control bar wouldn’t return on certain computers (seems to have been prevalent in certain versions of Safari 4.0.4, maybe Chrome).

The Problem

The example I was working on was using Flowplayer with a Flash control bar (all customized).  The control bar was autoHide: ‘always’.

It seemed that after going full screen the control bar wasn’t coming up again.  Someone reported that it appeared to be losing focus — so after fullscreen the mouse wasn’t really over Flash.

The Solution

Did a little digging and found there was an onFullscreenExit event in Flowplayer.  Just adding a quick function call:

$f(playername, "player.swf", {
  onFullscreenExit: function() {
    window.focus();
  }
};

Did the trick!

Tags: Chrome, Control Bar, Flash, Flowplayer, onFullscreenExit, Safari

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