I have an Ext.navigation.View in which I have pushed a few views. Certain user interactions require that I go directly back to the top level of the navigation view -- the equivalent of popToRootViewControllerAnimated: on a UINavigationController in iOS.
I have tried various things like:
while(navigationView.getItems().getCount() > 1)
navigationView.pop();
and
while(navigationView.canPop())
navigationView.pop();
Neither work. The first example seems to put me into an infinite loop which isn't too surprising. The second example only seems to pop one view off.
So the question: What is the proper way to pop to the root view in an Ext.navigation.View in Sencha Touch (version 2 developer preview)?
There has been a number of interim methods for achieving this.
The one I was using was to pop a number higher than the number of levels you would ever have e.g.
navigationView.pop(10);
and that worked fine, but I was never happy with that, but I see they have now introduced a reset method. Which you can call thus...
navigationView.reset();
Internally within the Sencha source code (see below) you can see that it does a similar job to what @Mithralas said, but just easier to write.
// From the Sencha source code
this.pop(this.getInnerItems().length);
popToRoot: function() {
this.pop(this.getItems().length - 1);
}
Ensure to use the NavigationView.reset() method. To make it clear, if your main navigation view is Main, you'd do something like this in the controller:
this.getMain().reset();
The solution turned out to be extending the navigation view with the following:
popToRoot: function(destroy)
{
var navBar = this.getNavigationBar(),
stackLn = this.stack.length,
stackRm;
//just return if we're at root
if(stackLn <= 1) return;
//just return if we're already animating
if(navBar && navBar.animating) return;
//splice the stack to get rid of items between top and root
stackRm = this.stack.splice(1, stackLn-2);
//remove views that were removed from the stack if required
if(destroy) {
stackRm.forEach(function(val, idx, arr) {
this.remove(val, true);
});
}
//clear out back button stack
navBar.backButtonStack = [];
//now we can do a normal pop
this.pop();
}