# This is a very basic question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-a-very-basic-question/13261>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-a-very-basic-question/13261 "2003-02-10T23:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![GARRETTDESIGN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@GARRETTDESIGN](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GARRETTDESIGN)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-a-very-basic-question/13261/1 "2003-02-10T23:09:39Z")

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very basic…but, i do not know.

what does this mean? ( I’m assuming it has somthing to do w/ the way the canvas is going to scale?? i could be wrong though)

fscommand (“fullscreen”,“false”);  
fscommand (“allowscale”,“false”);

and what does “fscommand” mean?

thank you very much

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-a-very-basic-question/13261/2 "2003-02-10T23:11:22Z")

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I believe it’s explained in the AS dictionary, man 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-a-very-basic-question/13261/3 "2003-02-10T23:17:26Z")

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ohhhh, ok. Im at work and I was reading a book so i dont have the actionscript dic. on hand…but i will check it out when i got home. thank you for being so helpfull!!

oh…doesnt macromedia have it online too?? cool i will check it out.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-a-very-basic-question/13261/4 "2003-02-10T23:21:49Z")

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Yep. And be careful. fscommand doesn’t work exactly the same with F5 and FMX. Sometimes for security reasons (fscommand exec), sometimes because a new object has been created. But then again, I never used it enough to know what I’m talking about 😛