Handling App Orientation???

[Paul_Boland]

Hi Folks.

I'm working on a new iPad App and I want it to work with the orientation that the user is holding/mounted the pad at. I see the Accellerometor can get the orientation of the pad but I don't know how to work with this. For example, I can read if the iPad is Portrait, Portrait Upside Down, Landscape Left and Landscape Right. So do I have to create four frames of the same screen each showing the App screen at different orientations?

Any input appreciated.

[Olivier]

According to the orientation returned by the Accelerometer object you could adapt your game, like rotating the UI, reverse the gravity in a platfomer etc.. but this would be quite a daunting task.

For the time being, MMF only allows you to build an application in Portrait mode OR Landscape mode, not both. If you choose Portrait (automatic) or Landscape (automatic), your app will automatically rotate according to the user's device orientation.
I have asked if supporting Portrait AND Landscape simultaneously would be possible in the future:
http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=78480

[Paul_Boland]

Thanks, Olivier. I guess I can work with one orientation then. Thanks for the info on the automatic orientations.

[Anders]

Supporting both orientations at once is something I would like to see happen for the iOS runtime but it is very complex to add into the existing runtime code.
Quite a lot of the internal system relies on the window size which is assumed constant after the application is done launching.

We improve the runtime all the time and it might be possible in the foreseeable future but I cannot promise anything at this point. I have to get back to you on that.