Return to "previous" view & keep track of views

[XD]

Hello everyone!

The question is simple, i want to be able to "return" to the previous view when entering a sub-menu (view).
There are many ways to do this, like manually assigning a label/identifier to each view.

Pushing the label anto a stacked stored in the Model when entering a sub menu, then pop:ing the label and checking if it corresponds to a "sub-menu entry" when leaving the view.

Question 1:
Is there some built in mechanism to individually identify each view?
I would like to avoid manually adding labels to the views like enums etc.

Question 2:
Is there a built in system for handling this?
I haven't been able to find it in the documentation and would obviously prefer to use a excising built in solution than writing one myself.

Example below:

I want the cursor/arrow to return "Sub menu 1:A" when returning from sub menu "1:A"

[Osman SOYKURT]

Hello @XD ,

TouchGFX does not have a built-in feature to handle this; however the solution you described using the model and assigning each menus to an enum value would also be what I would go for if I wanted to implement this. Remember that each screens of your application are independent, and they do not share any informations directly, this can be done through the model :
"The Views and Presenters are deallocated when switching screen, so they cannot be used to store information which should be kept across screen transitions. Use the Model for this instead.".

[XD]

Hi @Osman SOYKURT 

Thanks for the reply.

Is there no built in way to identify the views? Something like a view number assigned by the framework or "pointer table" etc. If not are there any plans to implement something like this?

I have a TouchGFX project with a few dozen views, it is a real hassle and prone to mistakes when manually assigning labels to all the screens.

[Osman SOYKURT]

I hear the challenges you're having, thank you for your feedback. As far as I know there is no plan to implement this feature, but I can bring the idea on the next meeting I'll have with the team. I'll let you know if we'll consider to do it or not.