I am trying to set up a custom iPad xib file that has two UIviews in the same xib... one for portrait view and one landscape view. Yet when I click on File's owner it only lets me connect one of these to the "view". So when I run in the simulator the screen will rotate but will only use either the portrait view for both. Anyone know how to set it up so it will select the landscape view when in landscape? Am I even making sense?? Josh PS, love the membership plans! Just signed up!!

I did a lot of research on this a while back when working on something. The approach that seemed to outweigh all others was to "programatically" change the layout based on the device orientation. There is a way to change views, but most people seemed to just re-code the layout in a single XIB. Hope that helps. If not, I'll try to answer any other questions.

I came to the same conclusion... BUT with more digging just found the following blog post that answers my EXACT question! http://www.theappcodeblog.com/2011/03/30/orientation-change-tutorial-change-the-view-when-the-orientation-changes/ Now it works perfectly! Hopefully it doesn't slow my app down at all. Thanks again, Josh

Nice find - that looks like a solid solution. Those may be old Xcode 3 screens in that tut, but the steps and sample code look great. Thanks!

Also, check out his YouTube channel under the name of "TheAppCodeBlog" From his Tweets, Kent Marsh has shifted over to Microsoft .NET programming due to his job. Yet his blog and video tutorials still have relevancy. -- Niraj

Hey Josh, Were you able to get this working? I'm having a dogonne time trying to make this work. I've got a cool screen for iPhone, but rotation kills it. Would like to be able to rotate, and to then apply the same to the iPad version once I get it going. Any help would be appreciated. Jeff