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Screen Orientation Checker

Display a customizable screen asking the user to rotate their phone/tablet if not in the right orientation.

Authors and contributors to this experimental extension: 4ian.

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Display a customizable screen asking the user to rotate their phone/tablet if not in the right orientation.

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Screen Orientation Checker

Automatically display a screen asking the player to rotate their screen if needed - on mobile phones and tablets only. Set up Anchor behavior on this object so that top/bottom/left/right edges are anchored to the screen top/bottom/left/right.

Object properties

  • Force show the screen (🔘 Boolean). Use this to test the screen in your game.
  • Padding (🔢 Number, Distance). Default value is 5.
  • Corner radius (🔢 Number, Distance). Corner radius for the background. Default value is 10.
See internal technical details
  • Force show the screen is stored as IsForceShown (Boolean). Default value is ``.
  • Padding is stored as Padding (Number). Unit is Pixel. Default value is 5.
  • Corner radius is stored as CornerRadius (Number). Unit is Pixel. Default value is 10.

Object actions

Force show the screen
Change if the screen should be forced to be shown. Use this to test the screen in your game.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1 (❓ Yes or No): Force show the screen?

Technical note: parameter 2 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is ScreenOrientationChecker::ScreenOrientationChecker::SetIsForceShown.

Message
Change the message of the object.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🟰 Operator
  • Parameter 2 (🔤 String): Value

Technical note: parameter 3 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this action internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is ScreenOrientationChecker::ScreenOrientationChecker::SetMessage.

Object conditions

Force show the screen
Check if the screen should be forced to be shown. Use this to test the screen in your game.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object

Technical note: parameter 1 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is ScreenOrientationChecker::ScreenOrientationChecker::IsForceShown.

Message
Compare the message of the object.

See parameters & details
  • Parameter 0: 👾 Object
  • Parameter 1: 🟰 Relational operator
  • Parameter 2 (🔤 String): Value to compare

Technical note: parameter 3 is an internal parameter handled by GDevelop.

Technical note: this condition internal type (in GDevelop JSON) is ScreenOrientationChecker::ScreenOrientationChecker::Message.

Object expressions

Expression Description
Object.Message() Return the message of the object.

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