My goal is to show a different first page depending on whether the user is logged in or not. The login check happens using a synchronous Ajax call, the outcome of which decides whether to show a login dialog or the first user page.
The normal way to do this would be to set $.mobile.autoInitialize = false
and then later on initialize programmatically, as described in the answer to this question. For some reason this won't work, instead another page gets loaded every single time.
I decided to give up on this way and try out a different parcour. I now use a placeholder, empty startup page that should be shown for as long as the login check takes. After the login check it should automatically change. This is done by calling a function that performs the ajax call needed for authentication on the pagechange
event that introduces this startup page. The function takes care of changing to the outcome page as well.
The trick is that it doesn't quite do that.. Instead it shows the correct page for just a short time, then changes back to the placeholder. Calling preventDefault
in pagechange
didn't prevent this, as described in the tutorial on dynamic pages. Adding a timer fixed this, leading me to think that the placeholder wasn't quite finished when pageshow
got fired (as per this page on page events), or some side-effect of the initial page load still lingered.
I'm really clueless as to how to fix this seemingly trivial, yet burdensome problem. What causes this extra change back to the initial page? Also, if my approach to intercepting the initial page load is wrong, what would be the correct approach instead?
I use jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 and jQuery 1.10.2 (1.8.3 before).
EDIT: Below is the code to my last try before I posted the question here. It does not work: preventDefault
does not prevent the transition to the placeholder page.
$(document).on("pagebeforechange", function(e, data) {
if (typeof(data.options.fromPage) === "undefined" && data.toPage[0].id === "startup") {
e.preventDefault();
initLogin();
}
});
function initLogin() {
// ... Login logic
if (!loggedIn) // Pseudo
$('body').pagecontainer("change", "#login", {});
}