The frame size of the view is not changing on rotation when the view is created with loadView

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I have UIViewController without a xib, and I'm using loadView to build my UI that creates and adds two scroll views. The thing is, the main view frame size is not changing when rotation happens. I mean, I'm setting initial frame size for the main view in loadView (portrait mode: frame size width = 320, height = 480). After rotation to landscape orientation, the view main frame size isn't changing and is the same as in portrait mode. Here's my loadView:

-(void)loadView{

  CGRect screenBounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];    
  self.view = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, screenBounds.size.width, screenBounds.size.height)] autorelease];
  self.view.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth);
  self.scrollView1 = [[[UIScrollView alloc] init] autorelease];
  self.scrollView1.frame = CGRectMake...
  [self.view addSubview:self.scrollView1];
  self.scrollView2 = [[[UIScrollView alloc] init] autorelease];
  self.scrollView2.frame = CGRectMake...
  [self.view addSubview:self.scrollView2];

I have also set autoresizingMask for the view to expand or shrink to fit the screen. But I'm getting the same width and height values when debugging that in console. I need to get a new size because I need to reposition my two scrollViews when rotation happens, for example to shrink the height and expand the width on the scrollViews on rotation to landscape mode. I could do manually in shouldRotate, just curious about how it should be done in proper way.

Centurion Centurion · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-25T14:27:09

I have noticed that self.view.frame size does not change but self.view.bounds does on rotation, and bounds represent correct values with respect to current interface orientation.

The frame size of the view is not changing on rotation when the view is created with loadView

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