Cascades Development

[klz]

Hello everyone,

I bet that I missed this thing in documentation, but need you help here. So I have a NavigationPane and stack of screens. On screens I have a home button to go back to the "parent" screen. How can I remove all pages from navigation stack exept the first one? I don't really want to push first screen again, because that way I will have to hide back button on bar and i think it is not good for memory.

Any suggestions?

[Zmey · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think you can use navigateTo method for this (+navigateToTransitionEnded signal to destroy the pages).

Pass the first page to navigateTo. It can be retrieved using navigationPane.at(0)

https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/reference/bb__cascades__navigationpane.html#function-navig...

Btw in Cascades if you drag the back button (not the screen itself), it will go straight to the top so separate button may not be neccessary.

[klz]

Hello Zmey,

Thanks for your suggestions. Will try to do that way. As for back button - I know that, but since I'm developing an app for a client I cannot do everything as I want to. 

[Brennan12325]

Here's how I've done it, and it should work assuming your root page is the first item pushed onto the stack (which I assume it always will be).

while(nav->count() > 1)
    {
        nav->pop();
    }

 Where nav is a pointer to a NavigationPane.

edit: So assuming you're willing to do this in C++ just connect the ActionItem triggered() SIGNAL to a SLOT that can access the navigation pane through a class variable.

If you're looking for a fully QML solution you could override the back button functionality:

paneProperties: NavigationPaneProperties {
                    backButton: ActionItem {
                        title: "First page"
                        imageSource: "back.png"
                        onTriggered: {
                            navigationPane.pop();
                        }
                    }
                }

 I don't think you can use NavigationPaneProperties in any way to include both a regular back button and a "back to root" button. I'm sure there's a good way to do it in QML but I'm too familiar with QML as I've done this kind of logic mostly in C++.

[klz]

Thanks everyone. Basically it will look like this

nav.navigateTo(nav.at(0));