I have a UITabViewController application with 4 tabs and each tab with a UINavigationController, each with a UItableView. When a row is clicked it navigates to another view.
I would like to support Landscape Orientation only for a certain UIViewController and not in any other view.
When I set "return YES" on each UINavigationcontrollers (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method the app orients in all the views even in the uitableview.
How do I get this right? I am very confused
If you want to maintain the views as per your requirement then you have to make different view for each tab also in Interface builder you have to create landscape view wherever you required. When you add that landscape view, which is created in interface builder will be shown as landscape only. There will be no need of shouldAutorotateInterfaceOrientation method.
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I've got an app that has two parts. Basically, the first part shows a bunch of image thumbnails. When you tap an image thumbnail, a full view of that image pops up inside a UIScrollView, filling the screen, with some buttons on top of it for performing various actions.
I want the main page with the thumbnails to always be in Portrait mode. But I want the two subviews -- the scrollview containing the image, and the uiview containing the buttons -- to autorotate when the user switches orientations.
I've tried having the View Controller for the main view return NO for the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method, and then having the two subviews' controllers return YES, but then NOTHING rotates.
Is it possible to have only those two subviews respond to rotation events? How?
How are you presenting the scroll view and buttons? Strictly speaking, they should be managed by the same controller, presented modally over your first view controller. The autorotation system relies on whatever it thinks is the "main" view controller, which, in this case—assuming you're not actually using -presentModalViewController:animated:, as it doesn't sound like you are—remains the controller that's displaying the thumbnails.
In other words: have one view controller set up the scroll view containing the full image and the action buttons, and, when the user taps a thumbnail in the main view, present that view controller.
I think you can register as an observer for this notification, UIApplicationWillChangeStatusBarOrientationNotification
This notification is in the UIApplication Class Reference.
When the application is about to change the orientation of its interface, the notification is posted.
I have a UITabBar/UINavigation application and I'm having some trouble allowing autorotation in a given view.
The TabBar allows changing sections, with table view items. When one of the items is tapped, I push a new view which hides the TabBar and which should autorotate. I tried the easy way, which seemed most logical to me: disable autorotate in the rootViewController and allow in the detailViewController, but this didn't work (shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation returns YES, but then willRotateToInterfaceOrientation is never called and view doesn't autorotate). I read that all VCs in a TabBar should return YES to shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation, so I did that, but the result is that now my whole application rotates.
I then subclassed my UINavigationController and set shouldAutorotate to NO, hoping that I could detect when the view that was being shown was in fact a detailView, and then return YES... I can't seem to do that.
Any help out there?
Thanks!
Antonio
It sounds like you've got a set up like the iPod app which has a tabbar for playlist view, songs view etc but which disappears when you go to a detail view for a song. The detail view can rotate but the tabbar views do not. When you do rotate the tabbar it turns into a cover flow detail view.
I'm pretty sure they do this by putting the tabbar inside a navigation controller. When you go to the detail view, it pops the tabbar entirely and pushes the detail view.
So the actual hierarchy looks something like:
Nav {
tabbar {
playlist
Artist
//... other tabs
}
detail view portrait
detail view cover flow
}
Only one of the sibling views (tabbar, detail portrait, detail coverflow) is pushed at any one time.
The iPod app does this because the detail view is the primary functional view for the entire app so the rest of the app is built around navigating to it. If that is not the case for your app, then this setup may be more trouble than it is worth.
I'm going in circles here. I have set shouldAutoRotateToInterfaceOrientation for all the view controllers. My app is running correctly in landscape, like this:alt text http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/3749/screenshot20100701at802.png
However, when I add a new subview using [window addSubview:whatever.view]; it shows up like this:alt text http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3749/screenshot20100701at802.png
How can I make the new subview automatically be added in landscape orientation?
Thanks!
window is probably not managed by one of your view controllers that implement shouldAutoRotateToInterfaceOrientation.
Add your view to one of your view controllers that implement the autorotation.
(By the way I develop without Interface Builder)
If you have a tab bar app that autorotates, so all the autoresizing masks are set, how do you make it work with all the views? Like if one view autorotates to landscape, you select a different tab in the tab bar, and the view associated with that tab comes up, and its all messed because it never got autorotated, it got initialized with the frame that makes it fit in portrait mode, even though the autoresizingmasks are set to have it look fine in landscape, it never got rotated. Whats the solution? (By the way, I'm lazy loading the views, so the only view loaded at any given time is the view(view controller's view) associated with the selected tab).
Does declaring all the required orientations in the didrotatefrominterfaceorientation method in every view controller you are using fix the problem?
e.g. your main view, with the tab bar is called "mainView", and when you choose a tab, it loads a view called "firstView", does the "firstView" view controller have the orientations set?
If a view controller is not loaded, it won't be able to respond to autorotation messages. So in your view controller, when it's loaded from the nib, it should check the orientation and resize and move things as necessary.
I have a UITabbarController with (so far) two navigation controller items. I can get the application to rotate by adding the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation to each class... but thats not exactly what I want.
What I want to do is to add a button in the UINavigationBar in one of the classes. When this button is pressed I want it to load another view into landscape mode. This view should not show any navigationbar or tabbar controller.
How can I get this to work?
Best regards,
Paul Peelen
You can try to use approach similar to Apple's AlternateViews sample.
Basically you should:
Create your landscape view with appropriate size (480x300 for landscape if standard statusbar is visible)
In your button handler push your landscape calling -pushModalViewController on your current view controller
Apply necessary affine transformation to your view to be displayed correctly in landscape.
Use presentModalViewController:animated: and implement the modal view controller's shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: accordingly.