iPhone in Widescreen - Little glitch in the docs

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On the page about iPhoneSettings.verticalOrientation things are actually the other way around: the default is true (vertical) and you have to set it to false to go horizontal…

I was a bit confused at first because with the iPhone Remote it changes orientation depending on the aspect ratio of the play window and ignores this variable alltogether…

2

Where is the page about this in the docs …

iPhoneSettings.verticalOrientation

Never mind … found it …

file:///Applications/Unity%20iPhone/Unity%20iPhone.app/Contents/Documentation/Documentation/ScriptReference/iPhoneSettings-verticalOrientation.html

3

Where do you set this value? I assume you need to create a start up script right?

4

Just add a start script to your camera:

function Start() {
	iPhoneSettings.verticalOrientation = false;
	iPhoneSettings.screenCanDarken = false;
}

I also added the ‘screenCanDarken’ line to make sure that the iPhone does not auto turn off if the screen hasn’t been touched.

5

Yup, a generic start up script attached to an empty game object. If you need to have this exist throughout additional scenes you’ll want to make sure that the “DontDestroyOnLoad (this);” is set in that same function Awake ().

In my case I use a script called iPhoneSettings.js that looks partly like this …

// set up default settings for iPhone
static var screenCanDarken;
static var verticalOrientation;

function Awake () {
	// set screen orientation and sleep mode
	screenCanDarken = false;
	verticalOrientation = true;
}