iPhone - UIViewController not rotating when device orientation changes

Question

I have got my own custom UIViewController, which contains a UIScrollView with an UIImageView as it's subview. I would like to make the image to auto rotate when device orientation changes, but it doesn't seem to be working...

In the header file, I've got;

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController <UIScrollViewDelegate> {
    IBOutlet UIScrollView   *containerView;
    UIImageView *imageView;
}

These components are initialised in the loadView function as below;

    containerView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];

    NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://..."]];
    UIImage *image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data];
    imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
    [image release];

    [containerView addSubview:imageView];

And I have added the following method, assuming that's all I need to make the view auto-rotate...

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    return YES;
}

MyViewController loads fine with the image I've specified to grab from the URL, and the shouldAutorotate... function is being called, with the correct UIInterfaceOrientation, when I flip the device too.

However, didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation method do not get called, and the image doesn't seem to rotate itself... Could someone please point out what I need to add, or what I have done wrong here?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This may not be the right answer for you, because you don't specify the context that the UIViewController's in, but I just found an important gotcha in the Apple documentation that explains the similar problem I'm having.

Tab bar controllers support a portrait orientation by default and do not rotate to a landscape orientation unless all of the root view controllers support such an orientation. When a device orientation change occurs, the tab bar controller queries its array of view controllers. If any one of them does not support the orientation, the tab bar controller does not change its orientation.