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ID		Creation date	October 17, 2008
Platform	S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition	Tested on devices	Nokia E90
Category	Symbian C++	Subcategory	UI

Keywords (APIs, classes, methods, functions): CAknAppUiBase::Orientation(), TAppUiOrientation, CCoeEnv.

Overview

This snippet shows how to get current orientation by using CAknAppUiBase::Orientation(). You cannot call CAknAppUiBase::Orientation() directly in a class which is not derived directly or indirectly from CAknAppUiBase or if you do not have access to AppUi instance, then you can also fetch the information using CCoeEnv.

This snippet can be self-signed.

Preconditions

Here we assume that we already have a working GUI based application.

MMP file

The following capabilities and libraries are required:

CAPABILITY  None
LIBRARY     avkon.lib

Source:

#include <aknappui.h>
 
CCoeEnv* env = CCoeEnv::Static();
if( env )
    {
    CAknAppUiBase* appUiBase = REINTERPRET_CAST( CAknAppUiBase*, env->AppUi() );
    if( appUiBase )
        {
        /* 
        * Possible values for TAppUiOrientation are :
        * EAppUiOrientationUnspecified,
        * EAppUiOrientationPortrait,
        * EAppUiOrientationLandscape,
        * EAppUiOrientationAutomatic
        **/
        CAknAppUiBase::TAppUiOrientation orientation = appUiBase->Orientation();
        }
    }

Postconditions

Successful execution of the above code gets the current orientation value.