Kindle Fire HD: Orientation Oddity

[Darmakwolf]

It seems by default, GLBasic apps run upside-down on the Kindle Fire HD 7". I have to use SETORIENTATION 3 in order to see it right... but this makes the initial loading dots go backwards until it changes orientation, and exiting the app shows the homescreen switch back to rightside-up. Is there a way to force it to be the other way around before the app initializes, and does this happen on other devices? 

[Darmakwolf]

Actually if there's just a way to force an orientation in the android package somewhere that'll solve my problem... anyone know how?

[Ian Price]

The HP TouchPad has pretty much the same issue. I don't know about the loading dots - is that the Kindle or your app? If it's your app, can you not set the orientation before displaying the dots? Dunno.

[MrTAToad]

Are you using one of the latest beta's ?

[Darmakwolf]

Well I'm using the link provided for the beta, downloaded it a few days ago. "GLBasic IDE, Version: 11.261"
The loading "dots" just appear... I don't see any other app do this, just GLBasic on my tablet. So there's no way to set the orientation before them. In fact, the very first block of code in my program checks for ?ifdef ANDROID and does SETORIENTATION 3. Changing that does nothing to the loading dots, those are always upside down...

so yeah. latest beta as far as I know, and setorientation only semi-fixes the problem. Like, on a normal android device it's right side up... it's detecting the wrong default orientation... KITTY HELP ):

[MrTAToad]

The loading dots were included to provide a display whilst loading.

[Darmakwolf]

Yeah I figured maybe. But they go backwards because of the incorrect orientation detection

[spacefractal]

You cannot trust setorintation alone, since portrait and landscape defaults behaive different and is not correctly handled by glbasic.

The optional plan is using java communication and checks the orientation of a special java command, which was destribted in the bug section as well In the java communication tread.

That why I'm in my game is locked to portrait mode only due that issue.

That issu can been clearly seen with landscape mode for htc desire and hp touchpad.

By now you could also check the device name directly throught java communication me thinks.

Ps. It's some time ago I reported the issue and thinks its allready fixed in next version.

[Kitty Hello]

You have the java code to fix it. Try to delete trash and rebuild? Also, get the latest v11 sdk. I dont know the version off my mind.

[spacefractal]

http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=8621.msg73172#msg73172

Is a fix to checks it's current orientation. Howover there is a swap y/x issue, which need to been fixed first. It's fixed long time ago, but still no new beta.

Etc display.getOrientation() is required to been used to check current orientation.