error 103: application.initialWindow.autoOrients is an unexpected element/attribute

[murfmee]

Hello.

I'm using Flash Builder 4.5 to experiment with building a mobile app for my Android Nexus One.  In order to keep the app in landscape mode, regardless of the orientation of the device, I've read that I need to set the following in the "AppName-app.xml" file:

<aspectRatio>landscape</aspectRatio>

<autoOrients>false</autoOrients>

And this does work fine in the debugger, however when I attempt to test it on my connected device it throws this error:

Error occurred while packaging the application:

D:\Projects\FlexMobile\AppName\bin-debug\AppName-app.xml(108): error 103: application.initialWindow.autoOrients is an unexpected element/attribute

I know that I'm able to build and test apps on my device, as I've been through the Flex Test Drive for Mobile tutorial (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrivemobile.html) and was able to build and run that app with no issues and this app I'm currently working on does run on the device if I do not attempt to restrict the auto orientation.

Thank you.

[rblaa · Accepted solution]

I have the same problem with FB 4.5. App builds and runs fine, but if I have the <autoOrients> tag it does not build.

Something is broken, or else the tag got migrated in AIR 2.6?

Is there a way to set this at runtime instead?

edit: yes there is: Stage.autoOrients and Stage.deviceOrientation

edit 2: which did not work for me (yet) with Flex 4.

final update: <autoOrients>false</autoOrients> works just fine! The problem was that I had it twice in my -app.xml file.

[murfmee]

Ah, I see!

The <autoOrients> node (along with several others) occours twice in the generated -app.xml file.  Do not un-comment the first instance, instead edit the parameters set in the second already un-commented autoOrients node.

This fixed the error in my application as well.

Thank you rblaa.