iOS 6 rotations: supportedInterfaceOrientations doesn´t work?

Question

I´m having this issue with iOS 6 SDK: I´m having some views that should be allowed to rotate (e.g. a videoview), and some that don´t. Now I understand I have to check all orientations in the app´s Info.plist and then sort out in each ViewController, what should happen. But it doesn´t work! The app always rotates to the orientations, that are given in the Info.plist.

Info.plist:

<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
    <array>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
    </array>

any ViewController that shouldn´t be allowed to rotate:

//deprecated
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}

Observation: App rotates to landscape and portrait orientation. Any ideas why or what I´m doing wrong?

Cheers, Marc

Edit: My latest findings also indicate, that if you want to have rotation at some point in your app, you have to activate all four rotation directions in your project settings or Info.plist. An alternative to this is to override

- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window

in your AppDelegate, which overrides the Info.plist. It isn´t possible anymore to set only Portrait in your Info.plist and then having rotation in some ViewController by overriding shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation or supportedInterfaceOrientations.

Answer 1

If your ViewController is a child of a UINavigationController or UITabBarController, then it is the parent that is your problem. You might need to subclass that parent view controller, just overriding those InterfaceOrientation methods as you've shown in your question

EDIT:

Example for portrait only TabBarController

           @interface MyTabBarController : UITabBarController
            {
            }
            @end

            @implementation MyTabBarController

            // put your shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation and other overrides here        
            - (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
                return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
            }

            - (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations{ 
                return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait; 
            } 

        @end