Web and WebWorks Development

[Bhavya]

I've only seen ways to do this with the Blackberry API. How would I go about locking the orientation to, say, landscape, with the Playbook API?

Thanks in advance.

[tneil]

I was just a part of the review for this functionality the other day

It will be part of one of the next WebWorks for PlayBook SDK releases (it is not included in Beta 3).. 

It will be in form of an optional config.xml entry to lock the orientation to either landscape or portrait.  It will not however allow you to turn on/off the lock dynamically in its first release.  It will be an application wide setting.

[Alocaly]

And the trick described in this forum thread :

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Web-Development/Forcing-landscape-mode-with-WebWorks/m-p/8101...

Modifying some of the SDK files...

Does it works ?

Emmanuel

[TheMarco]

It's not working in the new SDK. Still have to do the trick thing it seems.

[TheMarco]

Nevermind, it is working

[redbutt]

I just tried it, and it's not working with the latest WebWorks SDK. You get an error saying that <autoOrients>false</autoOrients> is an unexpected value.

[djames_]

I used this and it seemed to work. Try adding this to your config.xml

<rimrientation mode="auto"/>
Change to portrait or landscape.

[tneil]

yup, support for orientation lock via the config.xml file was added in 2.0

[redbutt]

Yes...I just tried it and its working. Thanks. The docs are a bit hard to wade through sometimes on these updates because indexed links lead to older info.

[jjrohrer]

Arghh, this is so not working for me.  I have a web works app that is only meant to run in Portrait mode, but whenever I launch my app, the simulator automatically flips to landscape and refuses to re-orient back to portrait (corner swipe is ignored).  

I feel like I've tried every permutation, trying to stumble upon the right configuration, but I would really use a helping hand.  Basically, it seems like this is what I should have in my config.xml file -- I'd really appreciate somebody pointing out where I am wrong:

My config.xml (for completeness)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:rim="http://www.blackberry.com/ns/widgets" 
	rim:header="RIM-Widget:rim/widget"
	version="1.0.3" 
	id="com.eleganttechnologies.quadratic"
	>
  <name>Quadratic</name>
  <description>Solve the quadratic equation on the PlayBook.</description>
  <author 
	rim:copyright="2011"
	email="support.bbpb.quadratic@eleganttechnologies.com"
	>Elegant Technologies, LLC</author>
  <rim:loadingScreen backgroundImage="background.png"
                     foregroundImage="cached_images/icon_1024x1024.png"
                     onLocalPageLoad="true">
        <rim:transitionEffect type="zoomIn"/>
  </rim:loadingScreen>

  <icon src="cached_images/icon_86x86.png"/>
  <content src="www/ProjQuadratic/playbookSkin/webapp.html"/>
	
  <Orientation mode="portrait"/>

</widget>

FYI: bbwp version 1.0.0.23

Simulator: 1.0.1.1630

Webworks downloaded on April 25, 2011

Thanks!,

JJ