Feature proposal: mobileActualAllowedOrientations?

[Brian Milby]

Some of this is already available at least on iPhone. If you set the only
allowed orientation (mobileSetAllowedOrientations) to landscape then the
app will immediately switch regardless of the device lock setting.

I did not see a way to query whether the use has their orientation locked,
but that really shouldn’t matter. If the app requires a different
orientation the it should switch to it just like many video apps do when
showing video.
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> My thoughts exactly. So the Android bug is that it doesn't do that.
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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> On January 28, 2018 12:51:30 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > This should be pretty easy... if the app is built to support multiple
> > orientations the it respects the lock. If it is built to only support one
> > orientation, it should override the lock. From the thread it seems iOS
> > already works this way. I don’t think the app should have to do any
> > checking for this, it should just work.
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 8:12 AM Randy Hengst via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> All of my apps are iOS only. And virtually all are landscape only. When
> >> the iPhone is set to portrait lock, my apps still open as landscape
> >> orientation… that’s how they were designed. I wouldn’t want the user to
> >> have to take the extra steps to unlock the orientation.
> >>
> >> II do have a couple apps that are in portrait orientation only. When the
> >> user has the device in landscape, the app still opens as portrait.
> >>
> >> be well,
> >> randy
> >> classroomFocusedSoftware
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> >> > On Jan 27, 2018, at 5:12 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Ralph DiMola wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> LC apps in iOS do respect the lock. This an Android only problem.
> >> >
> >> > I'm curious, if the app only supports landscape and the phone is
> locked
> >> to portrait, what does iOS display? On Android you get a tiny
> >> representation that reaches across the width of the phone with large
> blank
> >> areas above and below.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> >> > HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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