I am creating a business app for someone and wondered if anyone had implemented different UI depending on rotation and device ?
I don’t mind have a iPhone and iPad version if that would be easier.
Am think along the line of the mail app and the way t changes when you go from Portrait to Landscape.
Any tips or code snippets appreciated.
Dave
If your app is not locked into either Portrait or Horizontal position I would think that display.contentWidth and display.contentHeight would change based on orientation. I’ve not tested it, but this would seem to be rational behavior.
Then you could do:
[lua]
if display.contentWidth > display.contentHeight then
isLandscape = true
end
[/lua]
Cheers Rob, that has helped.
I have also stuck a runTime event listener is each scene checking for orientation.
Pity you can’t have global listener functions (or maybe you can and I don’t know it). At the moment if there is something I want to change when the orientation changes, I have to go into every scene and change the listener.
Dave
Have you tried:
[lua]
local function onOrient(event)
if event.type == “portraitUpsideDown” then
app.isUpsideDown = true
else
app.isUpsideDown = false
end
return true
end
Runtime:addEventListener(“orientation”, onOrient)
[/lua]
I used this in my Omniblaster game to implement an easter egg, er. testing feature 
I am using something simular at the moment. What I was saying though is I have that function in every scene, be great if I only needed to stick it in one place though. That is the only downside to Storyboard, before Storyboard where my whole game was in main.lua I could have just put that function in once. Dave
Just so you know, if you want to do this on Android tablets running Android 4.0+, you will have problems when the device orientation changes as the navbar at the bottom of the screen causes the screen to be incorrectly sized:
If your app is not locked into either Portrait or Horizontal position I would think that display.contentWidth and display.contentHeight would change based on orientation. I’ve not tested it, but this would seem to be rational behavior.
Then you could do:
[lua]
if display.contentWidth > display.contentHeight then
isLandscape = true
end
[/lua]
Cheers Rob, that has helped.
I have also stuck a runTime event listener is each scene checking for orientation.
Pity you can’t have global listener functions (or maybe you can and I don’t know it). At the moment if there is something I want to change when the orientation changes, I have to go into every scene and change the listener.
Dave
Have you tried:
[lua]
local function onOrient(event)
if event.type == “portraitUpsideDown” then
app.isUpsideDown = true
else
app.isUpsideDown = false
end
return true
end
Runtime:addEventListener(“orientation”, onOrient)
[/lua]
I used this in my Omniblaster game to implement an easter egg, er. testing feature
I am using something simular at the moment. What I was saying though is I have that function in every scene, be great if I only needed to stick it in one place though. That is the only downside to Storyboard, before Storyboard where my whole game was in main.lua I could have just put that function in once. Dave
Just so you know, if you want to do this on Android tablets running Android 4.0+, you will have problems when the device orientation changes as the navbar at the bottom of the screen causes the screen to be incorrectly sized:
Hit another problem now with rotating.
I have my navigation scene with a runtime event and if the device is rotated, everything moves all fine.
Problem is, if I have called say a login scene overlay and the device is rotated, the runtime in my navigation scene is never run, so I can move it.
Any ideas ?
Dave
Hit another problem now with rotating.
I have my navigation scene with a runtime event and if the device is rotated, everything moves all fine.
Problem is, if I have called say a login scene overlay and the device is rotated, the runtime in my navigation scene is never run, so I can move it.
Any ideas ?
Dave