Re: iOS forcing interface rotation
I'm not developing in iOS, but this intrigued me. It seems you can't force a reorientation (feature request?), but you can force a lock, by using the iphoneSetAllowedOrientations with a single entry, if the user then rotates the device, the new restrictions will be adhered after that point. However, it seems not to be possible to force the device to receive an orientation refresh by script. --random step during my testing on mouseUp --iphoneLockOrientation put iphoneAllowedOrientations() into prevAllowed put iphoneDeviceOrientation() into theCurr if theCurr contains landscape then put portrait into theNew else put landscape left into theNew end if iphoneSetAllowedOrientations theNew --maybe its possible to set iphoneOrientation()? --nope does nothing --put iphoneOrientation(theNew) --reset and force a redraw? nope, doesn't help it seems iphoneSetAllowedOrientations theCurr --iphoneUnlockOrientation end mouseUp On 13 Nov 2011, at 00:19, Scott Morrow wrote: Hello Hugh, I don't believe LC provides a way to do this. At one point I created an animation that took over the screen and prompted the user to rotate the device. That was the best I could come up with. -Scott Morrow On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:46 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: Did anyone figure how to do this? I need exactly the same thing: All stack windows are landscape, except 1 which must be portrait. How do we force an orientation change without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? Hugh Senior FLCo On Tue Aug 2 09:23:51 CDT 2011 Scott Morrow wrote: I am working with an iOS UI that allows portrait and landscape rotation on one card but requires that the UI be presented in portrait on all other cards. no matter what the actual device rotation is. The problem arises when leaving the card that allows landscape and going to a card that requires portrait. If the user navigates to a portrait only card with device already in landscape, the UI is skewed. Is there a way to force the auto-rotation without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? (I had hoped perhaps some trickery with mobileSetAllowedOrientations and mobileLockOrientation /mobileUnlockOrientation.) TIA, Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email scott at elementarysoftware.com -- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Watch live presentations every Saturday: http://livecode.tv Use an alternative Dictionary viewer: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ Chat with other RunRev developers: http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: iOS forcing interface rotation
Hello Hugh, I don't believe LC provides a way to do this. At one point I created an animation that took over the screen and prompted the user to rotate the device. That was the best I could come up with. -Scott Morrow On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:46 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: Did anyone figure how to do this? I need exactly the same thing: All stack windows are landscape, except 1 which must be portrait. How do we force an orientation change without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? Hugh Senior FLCo On Tue Aug 2 09:23:51 CDT 2011 Scott Morrow wrote: I am working with an iOS UI that allows portrait and landscape rotation on one card but requires that the UI be presented in portrait on all other cards. no matter what the actual device rotation is. The problem arises when leaving the card that allows landscape and going to a card that requires portrait. If the user navigates to a portrait only card with device already in landscape, the UI is skewed. Is there a way to force the auto-rotation without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? (I had hoped perhaps some trickery with mobileSetAllowedOrientations and mobileLockOrientation /mobileUnlockOrientation.) TIA, Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email scott at elementarysoftware.com -- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: iOS forcing interface rotation
Did anyone figure how to do this? I need exactly the same thing: All stack windows are landscape, except 1 which must be portrait. How do we force an orientation change without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? Hugh Senior FLCo On Tue Aug 2 09:23:51 CDT 2011 Scott Morrow wrote: I am working with an iOS UI that allows portrait and landscape rotation on one card but requires that the UI be presented in portrait on all other cards. no matter what the actual device rotation is. The problem arises when leaving the card that allows landscape and going to a card that requires portrait. If the user navigates to a portrait only card with device already in landscape, the UI is skewed. Is there a way to force the auto-rotation without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? (I had hoped perhaps some trickery with mobileSetAllowedOrientations and mobileLockOrientation /mobileUnlockOrientation.) TIA, Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email scott at elementarysoftware.com -- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: iOS forcing interface rotation (FlexibleLearning)
On 10.11.2011, at 19:00, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: I am working with an iOS UI that allows portrait and landscape rotation on one card but requires that the UI be presented in portrait on all other cards. no matter what the actual device rotation is. The problem arises when leaving the card that allows landscape and going to a card that requires portrait. If the user navigates to a portrait only card with device already in landscape, the UI is skewed. Is there a way to force the auto-rotation without requiring the user to physically rotate the device? (I had hoped perhaps some trickery with mobileSetAllowedOrientations and mobileLockOrientation /mobileUnlockOrientation.) Hi, We have the same problem here with our 90 Card App. Only some of the cards are Landscape which leaves you with the option to leave off the Tab-bar or nav-bar because if the user is holding the device Landscape-wise then it won't send a orientation-changed message if you click on a tab-bar button and HAVE to go to a portrait-only card. It will look silly. In the early days, before the orientation-changed message was captured there was a command to force the orientation. But that is no longer available. What we would need for these hybrid orientation systems is that command back to force the orientation to whatever the card can OFFER, not necessarily how the user is holding the device, or rotating it in sheer panic. He/she can then just rotate the device because that's obviously necessary in a visible steady way... not because it looks skewed. Plus it leaves UI-normal direct hops via the tabbar out of reach. We have ben experimenting with setting the orientation lock after invisibly going to a Portrait version of the card currently in Landscape and hoping that the user will grasp what is going on. But is is cumbersome and sometimes way too slow. We had severe flashes of white parts of cards under 4.6.4. Michael ? Ben ? Any way that old Force-Orientation command could be re-instated? best From Berlin Frans Frans Schoffelen http://knowlegistics.com // Home of iCal Alarmist // Software Sound // Makers of the German-Only Die Waldfibel on the Appstore with 100.000+ downloads ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
