RE: Screen rotation problem

[ChrisO]

Hey Taifun,

You posted some responses to the first thread linked below (a year ago!). I'm having similar problems now so I wanted to reach out to you. See the 2nd link for the full thread, but the short version is that when screenorientationchanged never fires. I'm starting to suspect it's because I'm on an iPhone and not an Andriod, but that's just a guess at this point.

Screen rotation problem

see the documentation http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/reference/components/userinterface.html#Screen ScreenOrientation Declares the requested screen orientation, specified as a text value. Commonly used values are landscape , portrait , sensor , user and unspecified . See the Android developer documentation for the complete list of possible options. Taifun

When Screen.ScreenOrientationChanged Doesn't Do Anything

Hello... I have 8 images in my project. When the phone is held in portrait mode, I want the images to be in 2 columns (and 4 rows). When the phone is held in landscape mode, I want the images to be in 4 columns (and 2 rows). I thought the "When Screen1.ScreenOrientationChanged do" would fire when the screen orientation changed. This doesn't seem to be the case. The value of Screen1.ScreenOrientation is always "unspecified." I'm assuming that since this value never changes, the when... cha…

Thanks in advance for any help/advice/thoughts you have on this.

Chris