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Stephane
Stephane

Reputation: 5076

Any idea why this view is not rotating?

I'm working on a photo view controller to display some photos in portrait and landscape view as well. What I did is edit the -(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation orientation with the code below but when testing in xcode (menu hardware > Rotate right) the view does not rotate in landscape. Any thing wrong in what I did ?

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
   return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight);
}

The view controller is a part of a tab based iphone app and this view is not root view: is this the problem ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2296

Answers (7)

WHT
WHT

Reputation: 63

I'm not sure it's a type error or edition difference, in my latest Xcode the method is like this:

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation

and it works well, are you missing the "to" of the argument?

Upvotes: 0

Bittu
Bittu

Reputation: 676

this could be just a typo, but its not UIIinterfaceOrientation, its UIInterfaceOrientation

Upvotes: 1

Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 3045

Your looking in the wrong place: in your RootViewController.m file look for the following code:

#elif GAME_AUTOROTATION == kGameAutorotationUIViewController
//
//lots of useless comments
//
return (UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(interfaceOrientation) ); //THIS LINE HERE

the line that says return (UIInterface... Portrait) is the line that determines your app's rotating capabilities. You can change this to whatever to allow you to be able to rotate completely, keep it at a certain orientation, or whatever you desire...

also in this

 -(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIIinterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
    {
      /* return (interfaceOrientation == UIIinterfaceOrientationPortrait || interfaceOrientation == UIIinterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || interfaceOrientation == UIIinterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight); */ //GET RID OF ALL THIS CRAP
return true; //do this instead, and if this doesn't work, try return YES;
}

Upvotes: 0

Christian Schnorr
Christian Schnorr

Reputation: 10786

Make sure that the ViewController in which you implement this method, is the window's rootViewController. Also, using return (interfaceOrientation != UIIinterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) is nicer to read. ;)

Does -shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation get called at all? Try logging something in this method...

Upvotes: 0

Guy Cook
Guy Cook

Reputation: 552

My first idea would be to just return true; to make sure there's no issue with the parameters being passed in / your comparison (it looks good to me but you never know).

Next would be, if this view is not directly attached to the window (or other top-level object if you're using xib's) you may have to also return true in any parent views. For the sake of testing you might just want to overwrite:

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIIinterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
   return true;
}

for all view (controllers) in the tree.

Upvotes: 1

makboney
makboney

Reputation: 1824

Also check your supported Orientations. For XCode 4 (Project->Summary(Tab)->Supported Device Orientation->Desired Orientations).

Upvotes: 1

MusiGenesis
MusiGenesis

Reputation: 75396

The method you want to override is shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation. Your method signature is missing the Orientation on the end.

Upvotes: 0

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