Is there a documented way to set the iPhone orientation?

Question

I have an app where I would like to support device rotation in certain views but other don\'t particularly make sense in Landscape mode, so as I swapping the views out I wou

Answer 1

There is a simple way to programmatically force iPhone to the necessary orientation - using two of already provided answers by kdbdallas, Josh :

//will rotate status bar
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight];


//will re-rotate view according to statusbar
UIViewController *c = [[UIViewController alloc]init];
[self presentModalViewController:c animated:NO];
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:NO];
[c release];

works like a charm :)

EDIT:

for iOS 6 I need to add this function: (works on modal viewcontroller)

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return (UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeRight);
}