Feature proposal: mobileActualAllowedOrientations?

[Brian Milby]

JLG... are you getting those pillow boxes with mobileSetAllowedOrientations
set to only landscape?
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 3:08 PM Brian Milby <brian at milby7.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.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
>> >> -----
>> >> > 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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