iphone - Modal View Controller Won't Start in Landscape Mode

Question

I have a navigation based app that has a detail view (UIWebView) with action buttons across the bottom in a UIToolbar. I want to add 'notes' when the 'notes' button is pushed. Everything works fine when the webview is in portrait mode. I press the notes button, the modal view opens fine and works great.

The problem occurs when the webview is in landscape mode. If I press the notes button, all the code to open the modal view gets called but all I get is a white screen. One comment: If I open the modal view in portrait and then rotate the device, it rotates fine into landscape mode. It just won't open correctly in landscape mode.

I have another button that brings up the mail composer which has the identical behavior. Here is the code in my UIWebViewController:

- (IBAction)addNotes:(id)sender 
{
    NotesViewController *notesViewController;

    // create the view controller and set it as the root view of a new navigation
    // controller

    notesViewController = [[NotesViewController alloc] initWithPrimaryKey:self.record.primaryKey];
    UINavigationController *newNavigationController =  
    [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:notesViewController];

    // present the navigation controller modally

    [self presentModalViewController:newNavigationController animated:YES];
    [notesViewController release]; 
    [self.view setNeedsDisplay]; // not sure if I need this!  I was trying different things...
    [self.devotionText setNeedsDisplay]; // ditto...
    [newNavigationController release];
}

Any ideas? I've tried all sorts of different things to no avail. I just get a white screen with no navigation bar (although there is a status bar at the top).

Answer 1

Modals don't always get information about rotations, and they get their info from the status bar, which doesn't always work right. Put this in your viewWillAppear to fix: [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation = self.interfaceOrientation And, if you want a navigation controller inside your modal, you need to create one.

Also, you don't need the setNeedsDisplay. That only effects the current views, not the modal you are presenting.