Prevent orientation change manually

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I’m pretty new to Corona and am currently trying to port an app that was partially developed in AS3. The default orientation of the app is portrait but I want it to have landscape orientation as well ONLY if there is a landscape version (file name with Landscape prefix) of that page (module). I have all of the loading and checking working fine however I would like to stop the orientation behavior if there is no landscape view for the currently loaded module.

In AS3 I would use event.preventDefault(); to kill the orientation change and I’m wondering if there is a Corona (or LUA) comparable method. return true seems to kill the rest of the methods functionality however it still rotates the canvas.

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#2

It depends a little on your setup, if you are set to support all orientations by default in build.settings, etc.

I believe we have a native orientation demo in samplecode that shows how you can manually handle orientation changes; this may be what you’re looking for. (Using a flag to prevent/allow rotation, etc.)

Peach :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 23130 reply_id: 92529[/import]

#3

Are you referring to the Fishies sample app? Or is there another one also?

Thanks buddy! [import]uid: 89076 topic_id: 23130 reply_id: 92627[/import]

#4

Yes, it uses the fishies sample code although obviously there is additional stuff in there for orientation, etc, in this case.

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