Startup orientation is wrong - iphone

Question

I'm new to StackOverflow, and also new to objective-c.
I have tried looking for a couple weeks now to find something that gives me a hint of what to do, but I can't seem to get through this one without asking a question. It feels like it should be simple, but...
I'm having a problem with the rotation of a "rootView" controller. It should show up in landscape (which it did, before I decided to use a navigation controller). The simulator shows up in the correct orientation, but it has loaded the view rotated 90 degress left, so that the text reads from bottom to top, sideways, so you have to cock your head left. The leftmost portion of the view is visible, but the remainder of the view runs off the top of the screen. It's a large program (I'm finding that, in general, with objective-c, but enjoying it nonetheless...), but here's the gist of what I think are the important code areas:
In the appDelegate, I create a window, my rootViewcontroller, and the navcontroller:
// .h file:
UIWindow *window;
wordHelper3ViewController *viewController;
UINavigationController *navigationController;
Then in the implementation:
//.m file
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)applicationdidFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Hide status bar
application.statusBarHidden = YES;
// --- Add the view controller's view to the window and display.
[window addSubview:viewController.view];
[window addSubview:navigationController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
Then I release all of these in the dealloc.
In my root view, I'm doing this:
// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Return YES for supported orientations
if (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight){
return YES;
} else {
return NO;
}
}
I implemented the following, to see what was happening, and I'm getting the log message on startup immediately:
- (void)didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation{
if (fromInterfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || fromInterfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
NSLog(#"didRotate...");
}
}
Other than this, I don't think I'm doing anything in my code that should affect the view(s). So now, on to InterfaceBuilder:
In the attributes inspector for both the rootView and the navigation controller, the orientation is set to landscape. For the rootView, under referencing outlets, the “view” is set to file's owner. I also have an action attached to the view (touchUpInside) – I changed its class to UIButton, because I wanted to resignFirstResponder when the user clicks anywhere in the background.
For the navigationController, under Referencing outlets, it shows a connection from the navigationController to my appDelegate.
In the main window xib, the nav contoller shows up in the list, and the view controller shows up as a subview of it.
The viewcontroller also shows up on its own, in the main window's list of objects.
The only thing that stands out to me, is that when I double click the window object, IT comes up visually in portrait mode.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

If you want the startup orientation to be different from the initial Portrait mode, you need to edit your info.plist file. Add an entry for "intial interface orientation" and set the value that you want.
Here's a screenshot:
If you want to rotate a UINavigationController, it will take a bit more work. See this similar question for more information.

Answer 2

I think your problem is that you are adding your navigation controller as a subview to the window and orientation notifications are only sent to the first subview in "window".
Try this instead.
//.m file
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)applicationdidFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Hide status bar
application.statusBarHidden = YES;
// --- Add the view controller's view to the window and display.
[window addSubview:viewController.view];
[viewController.view addSubview:navigationController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
Its annoying, but I've resolved orientation problems by only every having one subview in "window" and then controlling everything through that one subview (in this case viewController)

Answer 3

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but shouldn't this
// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Return YES for supported orientations
if (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight){
return YES;
} else {
return NO;
}
}
really be this
// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight);
}
?