How to create a view controller that supports both landscape and portrait, but does not rotate between them (keeps its initial orientation)
        Posted  
        
            by 
                Joshua J. McKinnon
            
        on Stack Overflow
        
        See other posts from Stack Overflow
        
            or by Joshua J. McKinnon
        
        
        
        Published on 2011-01-05T01:45:45Z
        Indexed on 
            2011/01/05
            1:54 UTC
        
        
        Read the original article
        Hit count: 692
        
I want to create a view controller that supports both landscape and portrait orientations, but that can not rotate between them - that is, the view should retain its original orientation.
I have tried creating an ivar initialOrientation and setting it in -viewDidAppear with
initialOrientation = self.interfaceOrientation;
then
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    return (interfaceOrientation == initialOrientation);
}
But that causes confusing problems (presumably because -shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation is called before -viewDidAppear).
How can I lock the orientation to its original orientation?
© Stack Overflow or respective owner