[maemo-developers] Howto enable portrait mode support on Fremantle

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Thanks for the pointer Daniel!
I was looking at the code, but it seems like they are not using the 
hildon_gtk_window_set_portrait_flags() function at all. Instead they set 
those window properties manual and listen on DBus for a orientation change.

It´s good to know that it can be done somehow, but I´ve never seen it 
documented like that. It quite a lot of code only for rotating the screen...

So is this the recommended way or is there another more hildon-ish way?

Thanks!
Conny


daniel wilms wrote:
> Hi Conny,
> 
> omweather used the orientation switch and it works fine. Perhaps it 
> would help you to have a look at the sources there:
> 
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/omweather/src/weather-portrait.c?revision=2951&root=omweather&view=markup 
> <https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/omweather/src/weather-portrait.c?revision=2951&root=omweather&view=markup>
> 
> Cheers Daniel
> 
> 
> 2009/8/21 Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de <mailto:hald at icandy.de>>
> 
>     Hi all!
> 
>     For some time already Conboy has the ability to relayout it´s widget
>     when switched from landscape into portrait mode.
> 
>     Now I wanted to know whether or not the window is actually rotated when
>     the device is rotated, so I asked on tmo and Andre was so kind and did
>     the test. It looks like it is not working[1].
> 
>     What I did is I added the following line to all windows of my
>     application:
> 
>     hildon_gtk_window_set_portrait_flags(GTK_WINDOW(win),
>     HILDON_PORTRAIT_MODE_SUPPORT);
> 
>     I assume that HILDON_PORTRAIT_MODE_SUPPORT means that this window is
>     supporting the portrait mode and thus can be rotated. And that
>     HILDON_PORTRAIT_MODE_REQUEST means that the UI should be switched to
>     portrait mode no matter what the orientation of the device is, right?
> 
>     Is there something else I need to do? Did I do something wrong?
> 
>     Help would be very welcome :)
> 
>     Thanks!
>     Conny
> 
> 
>     [1] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30883
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