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How to enable orientation change for some views in Flex Mobile?


I have some views in my mobile app (for both ios and android) whose orientation was fixed to PORTRAIT using <aspectRatio>portrait</aspectRatio><autoOrients>false</autoOrients> in the settings xml file.

Now I have added another view which plays video from Youtube and it should be able to play videos, both in LANDSCAPE & PORTRAIT orientation. So I came across this question which provides a solution to restrict only 1 orientation (globally for all views), but how can I re-enable orientation change only for one view?

Note: I am using Flash Builder 4.6 with actionscript 3 and youtube api

Any help is appreciated :)


Solution

  • Remove the <aspectRatio>portrait</aspectRatio><autoOrients>false</autoOrients> from XML, as it will generalize it for the whole application.

    Do it separately for each and every view. Since for first view you need a PORTRAIT, do it like this.(Taken from Adobe Docs)

    stage.addEventListener( StageOrientationEvent.ORIENTATION_CHANGING, onOrientationChanging ); 
    
    function onOrientationChanging( event:StageOrientationEvent ):void {
        // If the stage is about to move to an orientation we don't support, lets prevent it
        // from changing to that stage orientation.
        if(event.afterOrientation == StageOrientation.ROTATED_LEFT || event.afterOrientation==StageOrientation.ROTATED_RIGHT ) 
        {
            event.preventDefault();
        }
    }
    

    For the second view, do not define any stage orientation listeners, as you need both PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE.