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Alexander Blunck
Alexander Blunck

Reputation: 1223

Changing Screen Orientation during runtime

I have a Start-Menu scene, which I want to be shown in the Portrait Orientation. The rest of the game is in the standard landscape orientation.

I've tried following in the scenes init method:

[[CCDirector sharedDirector] setDeviceOrientation:kCCDeviceOrientationPortrait];

and

[[CCDirector sharedDirector] setDeviceOrientation:CCDeviceOrientationPortrait];

My question is, how can I switch Screen-Orientations during runtime?

thanks in advance! Alex

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1811

Answers (2)

drewag
drewag

Reputation: 94683

I'm not sure about doing something directly I. cocos2d. But you can put everything in a single UIView and then do a 90 degrees rotation transform on it. There is a private API to force rotate the device but it is agains app store rules to use it and it can be unpredictable too.

Upvotes: 0

user470763
user470763

Reputation:

You need to use the following code in the view controller you want to be in landscape:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
}

That code will force the view controller to only display in landscape-left. You return whichever orientations you want to support.

e.g.

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
        return UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft && UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
    }

I know you are using cocos2d but this code should still work fine in your view controller.

Upvotes: 1

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