Question

When the application is in landscape mode (which I plan to force), displaying a modal view causes the parent view to rotate to portrait mode. If I set the return value of shouldAutoRotateToInterfaceOrientation to NO, the parent does not rotate, however the modal then slides in from the side and displays sideways. Below is the code that reveals the modal.

- (IBAction)loadExistingGame:(id)sender {

SavedGamesTableViewController *savedGames = [[SavedGamesTableViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
savedGames.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
[self presentModalViewController:savedGames animated:YES];

[savedGames release];

}

As per request here is the contents of the shouldAutoRotate method of the SavedGamesTableViewController

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
return YES;

}

Answer 1

Ok I figured out what needed to be done to fix it. The plist file that contains a list of the possible orientations needs to be limited to a single landscape view. The parent to the modal table view needs to have the shouldAutoRotateToInterfaceOrientation method return YES only if the orientation matches the only orientation in the plist file.

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Overriden to allow any orientation.
return interfaceOrientation = UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;

}

the modal viewcontroller should return NO for the same method.