Switching views upon rotation not working properly - ios

Question

I've been trying several approaches to get the rotation working as expected but so far I've been facing some problems.
Now I would like to have one class with one xib file containing the 2 orientation views. One for portrait, one for landscape.
I am trying this in my main ViewController (the root controller set in the app delegate. But somehow it's failing : when I rotate, the view is switched but the outlets are not rotated. For instance a simple label from the landscape view will be shown as if the device was in portrait mode.
Here's bits of code :
In my app delegate
if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {
self.viewController = [[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ViewController_iPhone" bundle:nil];
} else {
//self.viewController = [[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ViewController_iPad" bundle:nil withOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
self.viewController = [[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ViewController_iPad" bundle:nil];
}
self.window.rootViewController = self.viewController;
In Viewcontroller.m
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(orientationChanged:)
name:UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification object:nil];
}
- (void)orientationChanged:(NSNotification *)notification
{
[self performSelector:#selector(updateLandscapeView2) withObject:nil afterDelay:0];
}
- (void)updateLandscapeView2
{
UIDeviceOrientation deviceOrientation = [UIDevice currentDevice].orientation;
if (UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape(deviceOrientation))
{
self.view = self.landscapeView;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:#"landscape" object:nil];
}
else if (deviceOrientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait && isShowingLandscapeView)
{
self.view = self.portraitView;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:#"portrait" object:nil];
}
}
I intend to forward the orientation change to the subviews of Viewcontroller by using local notifications.
Anyway, what am I missing here ? I don't understand why this is failing.

Answer 1

What i have found is that when you call
[UIDevice currentDevice].orientation
inside the context of a
[viewController performSelector .....]
It didn't work.
Some body with a solution for these?