change orientation on just one card

Thu Jun 13 12:16:40 EDT 2013

I found that (at least on mobile) pass is always a good idea for
pre/open/resize handlers. For example I found if did not pass resizestack...
In iOS the page just flipped hard and did not smoothly rotate. Also things
would sometimes go sideways if didn't pass preopencard and opencard.

So..... I started passing every engine message and then got myself in
trouble after passing returninfield and started sending returns all over the
place in a loop. I now try to make a judgment call on what messages to pass.
A guide-line on engine messages to pass would be helpful.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Dar Scott
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:05 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: change orientation on just one card

Maybe PASS in such handlers is a good habit.  I'm not sure.

Dar

On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> FYI, I had a library interrupting the preOpenCard handler and so was not
getting the expected results that I needed. It is fixed now and this works
as expected for me.
> 
> John, I have my set allowed in the preOpen card and it works on iOS. Which
one is needed for Android???
> 
> Thanks to everyone for the sanity check.
> 
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
> 
> On Jun 12, 2013, at 8:26 AM, John Dixon <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> No that is not the case... setting the setAllowedOrientations to a new
configuration is sufficient... I have an example where viewing a map on a
card in landscape... tapping the callout... the card rotates automatically
to portrait when displaying the info on another card... all that has been
done is to drop landscape from the allowed orientations...
>> 
>>> Subject: Re: change orientation on just one card
>>> From: mcgrath3 at mac.com
>>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:17:43 -0400
>>> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>>> 
>>> Apparently it seems that the mobileUnlockOrientation is needed to allow
a card to auto rotate to the desired new set of orientations allowed (even
though there was no mobileLockOrientation set before).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>>> 
>>> On Jun 12, 2013, at 5:54 AM, Pierre Sahores <sc at sahores-conseil.com>
wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Works fine here (LC 5.5.5) in using the following code to open a
substack in landscape mode and return to portrait mode as soon as the app
closes it and goes back to the main stack :
>>>> 
>>>> 1.- In the substack stack's script :
>>>> 
>>>>> on preopenStack
>>>>> if the environment is not "mobile" 
>>>>> then exit preopenStack
>>>>> else if "playerA" is in the short name of this stack then 
>>>>> mobileSetAllowedOrientations "portrait,landscape left,landscape right"
>>>>> end preopenStack
>>>> 
>>>> 2.- In the substack card's script :
>>>> 
>>>>> on preopencard
>>>>> mobileUnlockOrientation
>>>>> mobileSetAllowedOrientations "portrait,landscape left,landscape right"
>>>>> end preopencard
>>>>> 
>>>>> on closeCard
>>>>> mobileSetAllowedOrientations "portrait"
>>>>> end closeCard
>>>> 
>>>> 3.- In the mainstack stack's script : nothing
>>>> 
>>>> 4.- In the mainstack card's script : nothing
>>>> 
>>>> Both preopenStack and preopenCard are needed to get the
mobileSetAllowedOrientations message being efficiently catched on both iOS
and Android platforms.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Le 12 juin 2013 à 05:17, Scott Rossi a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> Seems to work here in LC 5.5.3 (what I have handy).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Not sure if anything has changed in later versions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Scott Rossi
>>>>> Creative Director
>>>>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/11/13 6:40 PM, "Thomas McGrath III" <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Has anyone been successful in having just one card in an app be 
>>>>>> restricted to just landscape. I have an app that is supported for 
>>>>>> all orientations but for one card I want to restrict the allowed 
>>>>>> orientations to just landscape.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I tried this on the card I want to restrict but with no luck:
>>>>>> on preopencard
>>>>>> if the environment is "mobile" then
>>>>>>      mobileSetAllowedOrientations "landscape left,landscape right"
>>>>>> end if
>>>>>> end preopencard
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is there a way to set the orientation when opening a card. I 
>>>>>> can't seem to discover any.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>>>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>>>>> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>>>>>> 
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