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Lock orientation on Storm

I need to lock my application in portrait mode on a Storm(and Strom 2) device. I use Ui.getUiEngineInstance().setAcceptableDirections(Display.DIRECTION_PORTRAIT); for this.

Here is the problem:

The screen direction only changes once the device is rotated to a direction supported by the provided direction parameter.

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If the user has the device in landscape mode and opens the application, the application will open in landscape and will only lock to portrait mode when/if the user rotates the device to portrait mode.

Is there any way to force the application in portrait mode even in the case I described above?

Solution

  • I have made a static method that I call from my application's main() method.

    See the full code in my answer to this question: How to fix alignment for vertical and portrait screen in BlackBerry?