It may be debatable. If you have an app that does different things in portrait 
an landscape, it’s handy if LiveCode ignores the device settings. If you have a 
landscape-only app that swings around to the upside-down view, then that would 
be wrong.


> On Jun 8, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> Colin Holgate wrote:
> 
> >> On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> Android lets us turn off auto-rotate, but it seems the
> >> mobileAllowedOrientations function only returns whatever value
> > I've set.
> >>
> >> How can I determine whether the user has turned off auto-rotate?
> >>
> >
> > Mostly guessing here, but turning off auto rotation shouldn’t disable
> > the accelerometer. You ought to be able to deduce if the device is
> > now portrait, and that you haven’t had an orientation message.
> 
> That's exactly the problem:  LiveCode changes orientation regardless of what 
> the user's auto-rotate setting is.
> 
> Bug?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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