Question

My view hierarchy looks like this:

tab bar -> navigation bar -> table view -> view 1 -> view 2 (UIWebView)

How can I rotate view 2 so it can be displayed in both landscape & portrait mode?

Answer 1

Heres your fix…just solved the same problem. The issue is the tab bar controller is responding no to the shouldRotate method.

Ignore the advice in the apple docs and create a subclass for tab view controller. In that subclass handle the shouldRotate

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Always returning YES means the view will rotate to accomodate any
orientation.
return YES; }

Heres my complete subclass
TSTabBarController.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@interface TSTabBarController : UITabBarController {

}

@end

and the implementation file.

#import "TSTabBarController.h"


@implementation TSTabBarController
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    // Always returning YES means the view will rotate to accomodate any orientation.
    return YES;
}


@end

If you change the class in IB for the tab bar controller you should just work.

Hope this helps.
Rich