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[John Nelson <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx>]

The point about the video player supporting rotation did not answer my
question, but your statement about the shell NOT supporting rotation did.
Perhaps my question was worded poorly; I was asking whether or not the
shell supported rotation yet, and now I know that it doesn't. Since Ubuntu
Touch for phones is supposed to be in a usable state by the end of this
month, it would be nice to have some idea when the shell will support
rotation.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  On 05/08/2013 07:27 PM, Nicolas Cook Leon wrote:
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> It seems that Ubuntu Touch isn't locked. It looks like certain screens
> just don't support the other orientation. Running it on my Nexus 7 has
> practically everything portrait-only, so I thought it was locked until I
> tried the video player, which supports both orientations. That makes me
> think you'll need to build it into your own applications for now, at least.
>
> This was postedearlier in the thread, does it answer your question? The
> shell itself is not yet supporting rotation.
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> And to make the apps developers lives easier the Ubuntu UI Toolkit has
> added a simple way to enable automatic rotation of an app depending on the
> orientation of the device. If you are using MainView then simply set the
> 'automaticOrientation' property to true:
>
>
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/qml/mobile/qml-ubuntu-components0-mainview.html#automaticOrientation-prop
>
> Just make sure that your app layout responds well to size changes and it
> is likely that it will also respond well to orientation changes (changing
> the orientation is equivalent to changing the aspect ratio of the app
> window, width becomes the height and height becomes the width).
>
> Florian
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> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:37 PM, John Nelson <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> That's exactly why there needs to be an option to lock rotation for an
>> e-reader.
>>
>> My other question remains unanswered: does Ubuntu Touch support rotation
>> yet? I'd like to know because I'm maintaining the device-specific part for
>> the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, and right now it's hard-coded to be locked
>> into landscape mode, because the early port was locked in portrait mode.
>> I'd prefer not having to hard-code the orientation if I don't have to.
>>  On May 8, 2013 9:52 AM, "Rasmus Eneman" <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> When you lie down it needs to be locked. And yeah, it should be an
>>> option (that is simple to change, ie. on the toolbar)
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/5/8 Joey Jiao <joey.jiaojg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> hey, why lock for ereader? at least keep an option for the user to
>>>> select if orient
>>>> 在 2013-4-30 上午7:55，"John Nelson" <thatguruguy@xxxxxxxxx> 写道：
>>>>
>>>>  I have another follow-up question. For some apps (e.g., an e-reader,
>>>>> once we get one), it would be useful to have the ability to lock the
>>>>> orientation. Will that functionality be built into the SDK?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, does anyone have any idea when Ubuntu Touch will be able to
>>>>> respond to the orientation of the device? The device-specific part of the
>>>>> build I use (for a Samsung Galaxy 2 7.0 tablet) is hard-coded for landscape
>>>>> mode. Is that still a necessary hack?
>>>>> On Apr 29, 2013 7:42 PM, "Sergio Schvezov" <
>>>>> sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:33:34AM +0200, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi Florian,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks for that. However on interchanging the width and height to
>>>>>> simulate
>>>>>> > the landscape orientation, I noticed that the core apps like
>>>>>> Weather,
>>>>>> > Clock, Calculator etc do not adapt well to the new orientation. Is
>>>>>> there
>>>>>> > sample code we core app developers could look at to get an idea on
>>>>>> how to
>>>>>> > make our app respond well to different orientations?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I actually have a followup question, how are sidestige apps affected
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> orientation changes?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Sergio
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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