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SL4A brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device.
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Home screen dialog orientation #198

Open damonkohler opened 9 years ago

damonkohler commented 9 years ago

From @GoogleCodeExporter on May 31, 2015 11:28

Display Orientation

ARCHOS 5
The Archos 5 Home screen defaults to landacape orientation and no mechanism is 
provided to change it. Some applications have exited and returned to a home 
screen which is very nicely in portrait orientation but it seems the system 
notices and quickly returns it to landacape. Normally I hold portrait and see a 
landscape Home. When an application is launched it appears in my physical 
orientation: portrait. When I return to Home it is a landscape display.

SL4A
When using script shortcuts which run in a terminal the terminal and dialogs 
display in the orientaiion I am holding (physical orientation). Good. But when 
using script shortcuts which run in the background the dialogs display in the 
home screen's landscape orientaiion even if I am holding portrait. Not good 
because dialogs appear sideways when I am in portrait orientation.

SUGGESTION
Please incorporate some mechanism to allow dialogs to detect and use the 
physical orientation instead of the displays orientation. If they must use the 
same orientation as their background then perhaps have SL4A display a 
transparent window under each dialog.

Frank Westlake

Original issue reported on code.google.com by frank.we...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2010 at 1:46

Copied from original issue: damonkohler/android-scripting#463