Xcode iphone orientation support for certain views - iphone

Question

I want to support all orientations for all views except for the main view controller. I can't seem to find a way to do that.
I can either support orientation for all views or no views throughout the app. How do you support orientations for certain views throughout the app?

Answer 1

I have not yet worked with an app that needed to act that way you describe, but here is what the Apple Documentation suggests when you need to control orientation support:
Dynamically Controlling Whether Rotation Occurs
Sometimes you may want to dynamically disable automatic rotation. For
example, you might do this when you want to suppress rotation
completely for a short period of time. You must temporarily disable
orientation changes you want to manually control the position of the
status bar (such as when you call the
setStatusBarOrientation:animated: method).
> If you want to temporarily disable automatic rotation, avoid
manipulating the orientation masks to do this. Instead, override the
shouldAutorotate method on the topmost view controller. This method is
called before performing any autorotation. If it returns NO, then the
rotation is suppressed.
Source: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/RespondingtoDeviceOrientationChanges/RespondingtoDeviceOrientationChanges.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007457-CH7-SW1

Answer 2

Subclass the top most controller .
For example you have a navigation controller as the top most controller then you just need to
subclass UINavigationController and write the following line of code in .m file of the subclass
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] shouldAutorotate];
}
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] supportedInterfaceOrientations];
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation
{
return [[self.viewControllers lastObject] preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation];
}
Now overwrite the method - (BOOL)shouldAutorotate for each of the controllers in your project.
Return TRUE for those controller for which you need to do rotation and Return FALSE for those controller for which you dont need to do rotation .
Cheers!!!!!