Setting screen orientation from inside SKScene

Question

My game is implemented in a single SKScene object. A button (SKSpriteNode) lets the user switch from landscape to portrait mode. Well, it should. But I can't make this work. There are many discussions on this but they are all rather complicated and give suggestions that are completely different.

So.... What is the easiest way to make a button in an SKScene that changes the orientation to portrait or landscape?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20987249/how-do-i-programmatically-set-device-orientation-in-ios7 — sangony, Sep 13 '15 at 12:42
I tried adding the code to OnTouchesBegan. It does not help. — John Dorsey, Sep 13 '15 at 13:38
This is the code I added: NSNumber *value = [NSNumber numberWithInt:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft]; [[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:value forKey:@"orientation"]; — John Dorsey, Sep 13 '15 at 13:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '15 at 11:04

Here is a short, concise, complete answer to the question I posted.

In xcode, select File->New->Project->IOS->Application->Game to generate a default app framework for a game for IPad using SpriteKit with ObjectiveC. This is the classic HelloWorldApp where spinning airplanes appear whenever you touch the screen.
In Targets->DEploymentInfo->DeviceOrientation, checkmark Portrait and LandscapeLeft

Modify shouldAutorotate for the view controller like so...

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    int currentOrientation = (int)[[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
    if (scene.orientation != currentOrientation) {
        // Rotate the device back to orginial orientation
        [[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:
         [NSNumber numberWithInteger: scene.orientation]
                                    forKey:@"orientation"];
        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

change the body of touchesBegan in your gameScene class like so...

-(void) touchesBegan:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event {
      /* Called when a touch begins */
        NSLog(@"%d", self.orientation);
        if (!self.orientation ||  self.orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait) {
            self.orientation = UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
        } else {
            self.orientation = UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
        }
        [[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:
         [NSNumber numberWithInteger: self.orientation]
                                    forKey:@"orientation"];

the app will then hange orientation on each tap.

Have you tried this on iOS9? Have been using this in iOS8 consistently but now it seems Apple has broken that API? — Jamona Mican, Sep 21 '15 at 09:12

Setting screen orientation from inside SKScene

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