How to lock screen orientation

[tamnv110]

I want to lock screen orientation in portrait mode. I used setAttribute(Qt::WA_LockPortraitOrientation) method in form, main but I couldn't lock screen orientation. When I ran the program, I clicked on emulator's screen orientation button. It rotated immediately.
Please help me.

[somnathbanik]

you can try this in main.cpp

#ifdef Q_OS_SYMBIAN
    // lock screen orientation

    CAknAppUi* appUi = dynamic_cast<CAknAppUi*>(CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi());
    if(appUi){
        QT_TRAP_THROWING(appUi ->SetOrientationL(CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait));
    }

#endif

[danhicksbyron]

But you need some includes and libs.

And note that it won't work on the simulator.

[somnathbanik]

yes as mentioed by danhicksbyron, you need to add the header and libs

#ifdef Q_OS_SYMBIAN
#include <eikenv.h>
#include <eikappui.h>
#include <aknenv.h>
#include <aknappui.h>
#endif

.pro

symbian {
LIBS += -lcone -leikcore -lavkon
}

[akse]

I've had the same problems, I want my app to lock in landscape. I've tried the steps in this thread and a few other but it doesn't seem to help.

[akse]

SOLVED

Can anyone help me?

I still havent solved the issue with my app. I've tried every combination of the examples for Locking screen orientation but they don't seem to work for my app. Does it work only for widgets or mainwindow too?

I've built a couple of example projects for N8 which both use the same code as I have to lock orientation and they seem to work with same settings and build targets.

Any ideas?

Solution:
So if you have QApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_S60DontConstructApplicationPanes); in your project.. it doesn't seem to work use showFullScreen in all widgets etc instead of that attribute.

[Fuzzbender]

Can you add additional details of your app?
Do you get resize events when it should be locked?

[akse]

Can you add additional details of your app?
Do you get resize events when it should be locked?

Don't worry I got it working already, but thanks. It was the attribute that somehow forced rotation to auto. I actually am able to use the Qt specific orientation code now, don't need symbian native.

[Fuzzbender]

Ah, right. The native side (AVKON) needs StatusPane component for rotation support (or locking). Using QApplication::setAttribute(Qt::AA_S60DontConstructApplicationPanes) means that Qt app won't create any native panes, which means that any native feature support requiring those is also removed. This native limitation should perhaps be documented to the Qt application attributes.