Force View to Landscape

Greetings all

Titanium 3.1.2 windows 7 and Mac Android 4.0+ IOS7

This code works great in IOS but will not work in android regardless of what I try.

What I want to do is make a view landscape even when the device is in portrait because of the amount of info that I need to display.

var mainticket = Ti.UI.createView ({
    height:"100%",
    width: "100%",
 
    backgroundColor: "white",
 
    orientationModes: [Ti.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT]
});
 
mainticket.addEventListener('focus', function(e) {
    mainticket.orientationModes = [Titanium.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT];
});

I have modded the TIAPP.xml and all that seems to do is lock it into landscape (I don't need the whole app in landscape).

I have also tried this :

// ticket.orientationModes = Ti.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT;
$.workmaintickview.add(ticket);
// Ti.UI.orientation = Ti.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT;
// 
// Ti.Gesture.addEventListener('orientationchange', function(e) {
//  
    // Ti.UI.orientation = Ti.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT;
    // Titanium.API.info('gesture fire = ' + Ti.Gesture.orientation);
// });

its commented out while I try different things.

The second part of this is that I need it to switch back to portrait on a button press. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

John