Flash Dancer v.1.3 (updated February 25, 2008)
Flash Dancer launches Flash SWF files as fullscreen windows on any monitor attached to your computer. The inability to do this has been a huge problem with Macromedia/Adobe Flash forever, especially in kiosk-type applications.
Usage is very straight forward, just download, run, and point Flash Dancer at your SWF. In this screen capture, note the "monitor" pulldown, which will list all avaialble monitors:
In this capture you can see the handy dandy option to create a shortcut to the SWF on your desktop. Once you set the options (for example, to launch f:\my docs\logo.swf on monitor 2 as an always-on-top window), you can easily repeat these settings by double-clicking that shortcut:
You can also run Flash Dancer from commandline, like this:
c:\flashdancer\flashdancer.exe -fname="f:\my docs\logo.swf" -monitor=2 -ontop=yes
Note the quotes around the filename, which are only necessary if your path has spaces in it.
You can close any window launched by Flash Dancer by clicking the Flash window and then pressing the ESC key.
Other Features
Let me know if you need any other features. Some things that would be easy enough to add:
- ability to launch other types of media such as JPGs or PNGs, including PNGs with transparencies
- ability to launch non-fullscreen windows, placed at precise X & Y coordinates
- ability to name the windows so they can be closed from other apps or commandline
Updates
version 1.3 (2/25/08): escape key now only exits if the Flash window has focus.
Download
Flash Dancer Installer. Note that in demo mode, the Flash window closes after a period.
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