[news.eclipse.dsdp.ercp] Re: Switch the screen orientation

[Gorkem Ercan <gercan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are right, it is probably because of the XP.  setOrientation is one 
of those functions that the end result is device dependent. Some devices 
do not "know" how to do draw their UIs in landspace/portrait and in 
those devices it is possible that it will fail.

I have not checked if it work correctly on win xp but getOrientation is 
the help to check the success of the function.
---
Gorkem


Jaime wrote:
> I want to switch the screen orientation and I read a post in this group 
> about it which suggested using Screen.setOrientation. I've used it:
>
> MobileDevice mobileDevice = MobileDevice.getMobileDevice();
> Screen[] screens = mobileDevice.getScreens();
> if (screens.length > 0)
>   screens[0].setOrientation(Screen.LANDSCAPE);
>
> The execution was successful (without exceptions) but there was no effect at 
> all. The GUI had the same aspect and layout. What does this method actually 
> do? Perhaps the problem is that I'm testing my code in a desktop (with 
> Windows XP).
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Jaime