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The following example shows how to change the screen orientation of an S60 UI application, from portrait to landscape or vice versa.

The method that is used to do the rotation is CAknAppUiBase::SetOrientationL(). There is also another method to get the current screen orientation, CAknAppUiBase::Orientation().

The following example shows a method that will change the orientation to portrait if the current one is landscape and vice versa.

void CMyClass::RotateMe()
    {
    // Changing from portrait to landscape or vice versa.
    iIsPortrait = !iIsPortrait;
 
    // Change the screen orientation.
    if (iIsPortrait)
        {
        AppUi()->SetOrientationL(CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait);
        }
    else
        {
        AppUi()->SetOrientationL(CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationLandscape);
        }
    }

Internal links

• Scalable UI
• Layout-awareness challenges in custom UIs
• How to find out the correct location for softkey labels

External links

• S60 Platform: Scalable UI Guideline
• S60 Platform: Custom UI and Screen Rotation Example