Rotating the keyboard

[Michael Koppelman]

I'm working on an iPad game. When in two player mode, when the iPad is
laying flat on the table between the two players, I'd like to have a
button that rotates the game board so the other player can take their
turn. If I just rotate the game board view, when they click the text
input field, the keyboard still looks upside down. Do you know how to
force the keyboard into a different position? I can't seem to figure
out how to access that view directly.

The other approach I tried was to force the interfaceOrientation to
the opposite orientation but this seems to have no effect.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
M.

[Paul Cantrell]

I know that Apple discourages this in their UI guidelines — they always want the user to initiate a rotation — and goes out of their way to discourage it in the APIs. It sounds perfectly reasonable in your case, but Apple Knows What's Good For You™ and they want to make it hard.

You might be able to mess with the transform property of the window:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI);

…or something along those lines. But that way probably lies madness.

Cheers, P

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[Paul Cantrell]

Looks like I'm it. The list lives on.

Thanks, Dan, for getting the very helpful list going. It's been a
tremendous resource. We're sorry to see you leave — though your
reasons are certainly understandable.

Cheers,

Paul