App should be locked in landscape mode

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This is a request for a very minor feature.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start game
2. Close keyboard
3. Hold phone oriented in portrait mode

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The phone display rotates into portrait mode. It would be better, if it
just stayed in landscape.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.2 on Android 1.6 (Cyanogen 4.2 stable)

Please provide any additional information below.

The phone rotates into portrait mode, clipping the right part of the game
screen and showing just a black rectangle at the bottom. The display isn't
correct anyway, so it might just as well stay locked into the correct
orientation. It's not actually important, as you can't play anyway, but it
would be nice if only for cosmetic reasons and when you have to put the
phone down. I know, this can be done, because other games also do it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by afire...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2009 at 6:45

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Yes, I have been thinking of this issue a bit already. For people that have a
physical keyboard and no intention to play using a virtual one, what you say
definitely makes sense. But, for users with no physical keyboard, the portrait 
mode
with a virtual keyboard at the bottom, a scrollable map area, and locked
message/status bars seems like an attractive setup which I'm working on for the 
next
version. I do know how to lock into landscape mode through the properties of the
Android Activity, but I haven't checked yet how to do it through code, which 
would be
needed to make it an option. I hope to get something like this in an update 
some time
soon.

Original comment by farnst...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2009 at 7:46

• Changed state: Accepted

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This works a bit differently in the new 1.2.1 version, which is much more able 
to make the game fit and be playable in either portrait or landscape mode. 
There is still no option to lock it into one or the other, though, so I suppose 
we can keep this issue open as I've been thinking of adding one in the future.

Original comment by farnst...@gmail.com on 21 Jun 2010 at 7:00

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In version 1.2.4, you can go to Menu/Preferences and set the Orientation to 
Landscape, if you want to prevent it from ever going into portrait mode. Hope 
that works for you.

Original comment by farnst...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2010 at 10:59

• Changed state: Fixed