Feature proposal: mobileActualAllowedOrientations?

[J. Landman Gay]

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