Is there a documented way to set the iPhone orientation?

Question

I have an app where I would like to support device rotation in certain views but other don\'t particularly make sense in Landscape mode, so as I swapping the views out I wou

Answer 1

I solved this quite easily in the end. I tried every suggestion above and still came up short, so this was my solution:

In the ViewController that needs to remain Landscape (Left or Right), I listen for orientation changes:

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(didRotate:)
                                             name:UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification object:nil];

Then in didRotate:

- (void) didRotate:(NSNotification *)notification
{   if (orientationa == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait) 
    {
        if (hasRotated == NO) 
        {
            NSLog(@"Rotating to portait");
            hasRotated = YES;
            [UIView beginAnimations: @"" context:nil];
            [UIView setAnimationDuration: 0];
            self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
            self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(-90));
            self.view.bounds = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 480.0f, 320.0f);
            self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 480.0f, 320.0f);
            [UIView commitAnimations];

    }
}
else if (UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape( orientationa))
{
    if (hasRotated) 
    {
        NSLog(@"Rotating to lands");
        hasRotated = NO;
        [UIView beginAnimations: @"" context:nil];
        [UIView setAnimationDuration: 0];
        self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
        self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(0));
        self.view.bounds = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 320.0f, 480.0f);
        self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 320.0f, 480.0f);
        [UIView commitAnimations];

    }
}

Keep in mind any Super Views/Subviews that use autoresizing, as the view.bounds/frame are being reset explicitly...

The only caveat to this method for keeping the view Landscape, is the inherent animation switching between orientations that has to occur, when it would be better to have it appear to have no change.