Start app in landscape mode locked and later enable autoOrients

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August 4, 2011
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Hi!

I want to start my app in landscape mode locked and when an effect finished unlocks autorients to true and the user can change the orientation.of the device.

I have tried few things but i can't get it. My descriptor file contains:

 <aspectRatio>landscape</aspectRatio>
 <autoOrients>false</autoOrients>

And in my code when the effect is finished:

stage.autoOrients = true

When i play my app in desktop it run but later running it in a phisichal device (playbook) orientation its ever locked.

¿Is posible lock orientation (and force landscape mode) and later unlock orientation?

Thanks so much!

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quecocinohoy

Known Participant

So, is this possible? I hope so.

R

Rangora

Inspiring

There are a lot of situations where this is needed (i made a "drawing" widget that allow the user to draw over a photo)... On a tablet, you have the reflex of moving the device to draw in a different angle... but right now, the UI will also rotate! I cannot just disable the autoOrient because the application contains other views that must autoOrient.

Adobe? Is it possible? Will it be possible in AIR 3?

J

Joe ... Ward

Participating Frequently

You should be able to do this now (AIR 2.6). The Stage.autoOrients property used to be read-only, but now it is writable. The main gotcha is that when you set Stage.autoOrients to false, the exact result is device-dependent. You might have it lock to the current orientation, or it might switch to the device default orientation and lock to that (you can still use setOrientation() to change, though). In my limited testing (3 devices), it has always done the latter (portrait is the default on phones, landscape on tablets).