Creating a full screen application

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#1

Would anyone be able to tell me how to create a full screen black image (over the dock and menu bar). I do have this info somewhere but would also like to know scripts to make the dock ‘hide’, and only show on rollover as well as make the menu bar ‘hide’ and to also only show on rollover.

Thanks in advance!

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#2 
global window_ID

tell application "Finder"
	if the (count of Finder windows) is 0 then error number -128
end tell

try
	-- check window ID
	set window_ID to (do shell script "defaults read com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen windowID") as integer
	tell application "Finder"
		if exists (Finder window id window_ID) then
			set restore_window to true
		else
			set restore_window to false
		end if
	end tell
on error
	set restore_window to false
end try

if restore_window is false then
	-- STORE THE VISIBLITY STATUS OF THE DOCK
	tell application "System Events"
		tell dock preferences
			if autohide is true then
				set hidden_status to "YES"
			else
				set hidden_status to "NO"
			end if
		end tell
	end tell
	do shell script ("defaults write com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen dockHidden -bool " & hidden_status)
	
	-- STORE THE ID OF THE FRONT FINDER WINDOW
	tell application "Finder"
		set window_ID to the id of the front Finder window
	end tell
	do shell script ("defaults write com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen windowID -string " & (window_ID as string))
	
	-- STORE THE CURRENT VIEW OF THE FRONT FINDER WINDOW
	tell application "Finder"
		set this_view to the current view of Finder window id window_ID
		if this_view is icon view then
			set view_value to "0"
		else if this_view is list view then
			set view_value to "1"
		else if this_view is column view then
			set view_value to "2"
		else if this_view is flow view then
			set view_value to "3"
		end if
	end tell
	do shell script ("defaults write com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen currentView -string " & view_value)
	
	-- STORE THE BOUNDS OF THE FRONT FINDER WINDOW
	tell application "Finder"
		set these_bounds to the bounds of Finder window id window_ID
	end tell
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
	set the bounds_string to these_bounds as string
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	do shell script ("defaults write com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen currentBounds -string " & bounds_string)
	
	-- HIDE THE DOCK
	tell application "System Events"
		tell dock preferences
			set autohide to true
		end tell
	end tell
	
	-- SET WINDOW VIEW
	tell application "Finder"
		activate
		copy bounds of the window of the desktop to {a, b, c, d}
		tell Finder window id window_ID
			set properties to {current view:flow view, bounds:{0, 44, c, d}}
		end tell
	end tell
else
	set the stored_vew to (do shell script "defaults read com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen currentView")
	set the stored_bounds to (do shell script "defaults read com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen currentBounds")
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
	set the bounds_list to every text item of the stored_bounds
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	copy the bounds_list to {a, b, c, d}
	tell application "Finder"
		activate
		if the stored_vew is "0" then
			set the current view of Finder window id window_ID to icon view
		else if the stored_vew is "1" then
			set the current view of Finder window id window_ID to list view
		else if the stored_vew is "2" then
			set the current view of Finder window id window_ID to column view
		else if the stored_vew is "3" then
			set the current view of Finder window id window_ID to flow view
		end if
		set the bounds of Finder window id window_ID to {a as integer, b as integer, c as integer, d as integer}
	end tell
	set the stored_status to (do shell script "defaults read com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen dockHidden") as boolean
	tell application "System Events"
		tell dock preferences
			set autohide to stored_status
		end tell
	end tell
	-- DELETE THE PREFS FILE
	try
		set the target_file to the quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to preferences folder from user domain) & "com.applescript.BrowseFullScreen.plist")
		do shell script ("rm " & target_file)
	end try
end if

Here’s a script for part of what you asked. If you have questions editing this just ask!

#3

Thanks, if anyone has any idea how to do the hide/rollover thing to the top menubar (where it has spotlight, the icons and the toolbars etc) thanks in advance (assuming you share!)

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