[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] 800x480

[From: Juha Yrjölä]

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:46 +0300, Asko Kauppi wrote:

> Ability to swap horizontal/vertical (at least in full screen mode)  
> would be an almost must-have for this device.  I know SDL could do  
> it, at some level, but there are issues s.a. blitting images on the  
> screen that might be more elaborate.
> 
> Has there been discussion/plans upon this?  Best of all: ability to  
> sensor current physical orientation, and adopt instantaniously.

The hardware does support rotating the display by 90, 180 and 270
degrees, with no impact on performance.  Nokia won't support it,
however, but actually doing it is just a matter of flipping a couple of
bits.

Cheers,
Juha