[forms-devel] Should the Popped event be raised when PopToRoot is called.

[Jason Smith]

Just realize I accidentally the entire conversation off the mailing list.

I hate mailing lists for this reason...

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Jason Smith <jason.smith at xamarin.com>
wrote:

> We could do that yes, it would however be "hidden" API because we couldn't
> actually change the signature of the event. If you know about it and are
> will to cast though that is probably the best solution. Consider proposing
> a spec to the https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-evolution repo :)
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:17 AM, <johan.kson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What about adding to the event args? I do understand that one simply
>> can't add stuff without carefully considering it so I will not argue about
>> that.
>>
>> This wouldn't break anything.
>>
>> class PopToRootEventArgs : NavigationEventArgs
>> {
>>     public List<Page> PoppedPages {...}
>> }
>>
>> I will not trouble you again with this, just want to make sure you
>> considered the event args option. :)
>>
>> // Johan
>>
>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>
>> 24 maj 2016 kl. 19:02 skrev Jason Smith <jason.smith at xamarin.com>:
>>
>> We could consider another event, however it does result in some ugliness
>> for consumers, it just makes the entire process much uglier in general to
>> use.
>>
>> We need to weight waiting for quirks against doing this now and being
>> saddled with a bad API forever :/
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:37 AM, <johan.kson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I figured that might be the case. Could we find an alternative way?
>>> Adding another event or extension point without cluttering the architecture?
>>>
>>> Perhaps adding an property to the event args passed in PoppedToRoot that
>>> contains a list of pages that are dismissed? This wouldn't break any
>>> existing behavior and would be nicely tucked away in the only place where
>>> this would matter.
>>>
>>> In my case I need to loop through them to deregister stuff.
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>> // Johan
>>>
>>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>>
>>> 24 maj 2016 kl. 18:11 skrev Jason Smith <jason.smith at xamarin.com>:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this may result in behavioral changes which could break
>>> some users apps. This means this suggestion is more or less dead in the
>>> water until we get our quirks mode developed.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Johan Karlsson <johan.kson at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> My summary and suggested conceptual change is in this post
>>>>
>>>> https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/66155/poptoroot#latest
>>>>
>>>> Good idea? Bad idea?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> // Johan
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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