Feature proposal: mobileActualAllowedOrientations?

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

 > On 1/27/18 3:43 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >> Thanks, Ralph.  Looks like a bug then - reported:
 >> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20916
 >>
 >
 > I'd have to think about this. If the alternative is to only have a
 > tiny misrepresentation of a landscape-only stack, do we want the
 > behavior changed?
 >
 > How do other apps, like some games, handle this situation?

Good question.  You can check out some on your phone, but a quick check 
here:

- YouTube: respect my preference until I fullscreen a video, then
   the video fills the screen in landscape until I return from
   fullscreen.

- Netflix: respects the locked orientation until playing a video,
   then goes to fullscreen landscape until I stop the video.

- HBO Now: same as Netflix.

- Amazon: always respects locked orientation, unless playing
   video, then acts as Netflix does.

I guess I don't have a lot of apps that are landscape-only.

IIRC I did once have a game on this phone, and it opened full-screen in 
landscape regardless of my orientation lock.  Seems reasonable, because 
as you say that app experience wouldn't make sense in portrait.

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