iphone/ipad orientation handling

Question

This is more of a general question for people to provide me guidance on, basically Im learning iPad/iPhone development and have finally come across the multi-orientation sup

Answer 1

I can't vouch for this code, and in all honesty the above willRotateToInterfaceOrientation works great. Here's another take on it with FBDialog.m from Facebook for iphone / ipad. (albeit, I think this was for a webview)

here's the gist

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
  selector:@selector(deviceOrientationDidChange:)
  name:@"UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification" object:nil];


- (void)deviceOrientationDidChange:(void*)object {
  UIDeviceOrientation orientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;
  if ([self shouldRotateToOrientation:orientation]) {


    CGFloat duration = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientationAnimationDuration;
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:duration];
    [self sizeToFitOrientation:YES];
    [UIView commitAnimations];
  }
}


-(CGAffineTransform)transformForOrientation {
  UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;
  if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft) {
    return CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI*1.5);
  } else if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
    return CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI/2);
  } else if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) {
    return CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(-M_PI);
  } else {
    return CGAffineTransformIdentity;
  }
}

- (void)sizeToFitOrientation:(BOOL)transform {
  if (transform) {
    self.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
  }

  CGRect frame = [UIScreen mainScreen].applicationFrame;
  CGPoint center = CGPointMake(
    frame.origin.x + ceil(frame.size.width/2),
    frame.origin.y + ceil(frame.size.height/2));

  CGFloat scale_factor = 1.0f;
  if (FBIsDeviceIPad()) {
    // On the iPad the dialog's dimensions should only be 60% of the screen's
    scale_factor = 0.6f;
  }

  CGFloat width = floor(scale_factor * frame.size.width) - kPadding * 2;
  CGFloat height = floor(scale_factor * frame.size.height) - kPadding * 2;

  _orientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;
  if (UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(_orientation)) {
    self.frame = CGRectMake(kPadding, kPadding, height, width);
  } else {
    self.frame = CGRectMake(kPadding, kPadding, width, height);
  }
  self.center = center;

  if (transform) {
    self.transform = [self transformForOrientation];
  }
}