Okay, here's a longshot. I have 2 questions about iOS programming that are driving me nuts! 1) Is it possible to prevent rotation for a plugin despite what the overall settings are in XCode? Since BT uses only one viewcontroller file, I can't use any of the solutions found online that I've seen so far. Really I need it to rotate back to portrait view when device is rotated otherwise, which will mimic non rotation of the screen. 2). If I have a UITextfield on a tableview, how can I move the screen up on keyboard display assuming the textfield gets hidden? The Apple doc suggestion involves passing the active field reference to the keyboarddidshow event listener. But the way current BT menus are setup, cell configuration and subsequent UI element creation is done in a separate class file, so I'm having a hard time passing reference back to the parent class at the listener event. Hope someone can help! Thanks

okay - ignore the 2nd question - I think I figured that one out.

Okay here is a hack for the rotation problem In your appDelegate.m comment out like below about line 975 //supportedInterfaceOrientations is needed for iOS 6 > //-(NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window{ // [BT_debugger showIt:self:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow %@", @""]]; // // //allow / dissallow rotations // BOOL canRotate = TRUE; // // //appDelegate // yourApp_appDelegate *appDelegate = (yourApp_appDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; // if([appDelegate.rootApp.rootDevice isIPad]){ // canRotate = TRUE; // }else{ // //should we prevent rotations on small devices? // if([appDelegate.rootApp.jsonVars objectForKey:@"allowRotation"]){ // if([[appDelegate.rootApp.jsonVars objectForKey:@"allowRotation"] isEqualToString:@"largeDevicesOnly"]){ // canRotate = FALSE; // } // } // } // // //bitwise OR operator... // // NSUInteger mask = 0; // // // UNCOMMENT THIS TO SUPPORT iOS 6 SCREEN ROTATAIONS // // mask |= UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait; // if(canRotate){ // mask |= UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft; // mask |= UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeRight; // mask |= UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown; // } // // // // return mask; //} Then add this - (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window{ NSUInteger orientations = UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown; if(self.window.rootViewController){ UIViewController *presentedViewController = [[(UINavigationController *)self.window.rootViewController viewControllers] lastObject]; orientations = [presentedViewController supportedInterfaceOrientations]; } return orientations; } In your plugin .m file in the view did load method add UIViewController *viewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init]; [self presentModalViewController:viewController animated:NO]; [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:NO]; [viewController release]; Then add this anywhere in the plugin .m file outside any curly braces - (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{ return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait; // this forces portrait } This will force landscape return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape; This will stop you control whether you can control rotation in control panel. Hope this helps

It is also best to set your development target to 5.1 as the method will become depreciated soon in ios6 although it does work at present

2 hours that took to work out but will be useful for a few of my plugins.

Thanks Kittsy! You're awesome. I'll try it out later today when I get home.

It seems to work on all the tests, it looks a little buggy on simulator, but perfect on device

Just looked at what you did, and I'm not sure it will work for what I'm trying to do. This is the last piece of the puzzle in the plugin I'm creating, so I need it to be contained within the plugin files. (can't exactly ask everyone who installs the plugin to override their appdelegate fle). I'm wondering, though, would it be possible to use a custom viewcontroller for a plugin? Can't we just copy most of whats in the current files into new ones, customize it, and then import the new files? Would address your issue with most of the github projects you found as well.

Unfortunately it's a method that will only run from the appdelegate. The future of plugins will need to make chanes to appdelegate in the Instructions. Just look at the socialise/scringo tutorials if they want a feature they will have to make a change. I will take another look at the code

Hmm ok-well if other plugins require it, I guess mine can too. It's really only intended for more advanced uses of my plugin anyway. I think I'll add in your code with a JSON check first to see if user wants the option enabled, and include instructions on how to enable rotation prevention. Thanks

Hmm - so I just tried to implement your code suggestion, but it doesn't seem to do anything. I tried on simulator using 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0, and on actual devices using 5.1. It rotates every time. I didn't notice any bugginess, though. And, of course, it doesn't look like there's a way to pass anything in the debugger here for this process.

sweet - I decided to go through stackoverflow one more time, thinking maybe I could find something that would work now that I've allowed for the fact that my instructions might have to include editing code. Somehow, though, I found a solution that works great and doesn't require any modification of the appdelegate or any other BT core files. Here's the gist: - (void) willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration { float rotation; UIView *thisView = self.view; CGRect portraitFrame = noRotationRect; if (toInterfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait) { rotation = 0; portraitFrame = noRotationRect; } else if (toInterfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft) { rotation = M_PI/2; portraitFrame = self.view.frame; } else if (toInterfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) { rotation = -M_PI/2; portraitFrame = self.view.frame; } [UIView animateWithDuration:duration animations:^{ thisView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(rotation); thisView.frame = portraitFrame; }]; } The tabbar still rotates, but everything else stays the same. I had to adapt it a bit, as the proposed solution had the last line "thisView.frame = self.view.frame;", which worked okay for the first rotation of the device, but as soon as the device rotated back it was out of wack. The only variable here that isn't declared is noRotationRect, which is a CGFrame. I declared it in the .h file for my plugin, and set it equal to self.view.frame in my viewDidLoad.

looks like it also works on ios 5 & 6