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    12 <concept id="GUID-685C3F33-1530-4984-B125-E4EF8EBB2EE8" xml:lang="en"><title>Symbian

    13 UI with rotation</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

    14 <p>Symbian UI can rotate between the portrait and landscape layout. This section

    15 describes the guidelines for designing landscape-aware application user interfaces.

    16 On the whole, the primary guideline in the Symbian platform is that no specific

    17 UI design is necessary for landscape orientation and mode. Instead, applications

    18 designed according to the guidelines described in this section should work

    19 in both landscape orientation and with the default portrait orientation. This

    20 section does, however, describe some exceptions to this rule.</p>

    21 <p>The Symbian platform in landscape orientation follows the bottom softkey

    22 style. In the bottom softkey style, the layout of the normal portrait UI is

    23 merely stretched horizontally to fit the screen, leaving the softkeys below

    24 the screen as in standard portrait orientation.</p>

    25 <fig id="GUID-F169E015-2D9C-40E3-8E5A-A681A8B598DE">

    26 <title>Symbian UI rotated to landscape in the bottom softkey style</title>

    27 <image href="GUID-D2263F64-2582-473A-B939-ACEBF8E974BF_d0e82219_href.png" placement="inline"/>

    28 </fig>

    29 <section id="GUID-1797F9D3-BC11-425B-A746-FB3274B097D4"><title>Using

    30 portrait and landscape layouts in C++ applications</title><p>Switching between

    31 portrait and landscape layouts is handled in the application and UI frameworks

    32 using <xref href="GUID-DD15F24B-0786-4531-A6C5-A5E70EBE2732.dita">layout change

    33 events</xref>.</p></section>

    34 </conbody></concept>