Hi Superpelican, thanks for the explanation.

What you want is for the dialog which selects the multiplier to be transitory, 
right?  So the page sequence will be: initial-page ->dialog -> question-page  
-> base-page.

In this case, you need to use the 'acceptDestination' property of the dialog: 
https://sailfishos.org/sailfish-silica/qml-sailfishsilica-dialog.html#acceptDestination-prop

If you set the question-page as the 'acceptDestination' and set the 
'acceptDestinationAction' property to 'PageStackAction.Replace', then the 
effect of accepting the dialog will be to replace the dialog on the stack top 
with question-page.  The pageStack state will transition directly from [ 
initial-page, dialog] to [ initial-page, question-page ], and returning from 
question-page will then go directly back to initial-page.

Note that you must provide the instance or component for the 
'acceptDestination' page before the user has accepted the dialog (because we 
need to be able to show that page when the user starts to drag right-to-left).  
This means you may need to communicate the dialog state at acceptance to the 
already instantiated question-page, by some means.

Hope that helps,
Matt

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From: Superpelican [superpeli...@zoho.com]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 4:45 AM
To: Matthew Vogt
Cc: devel@lists.sailfishos.org
Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Bug in the Silica Reference docs and possible bug 
in the Dialog component

Hello Matthew,

Sorry for my late reply.

I believe you misunderstood me. I'm not developing a custom Sailfish Dialog 
component, but creating a Sailfish app.
The sources can be found 
here<https://bitbucket.org/Superpelican/quick_clamshell/src>.

My intent is also not to explicitly pop the dialog of the pageStack, but I was 
forced to do this, because the dialog doesn't do it itself!
BTW I have already removed the code that should explicitly pop the dialog of 
the pageStack because it didn't work.

>Also, as the implementor of the Dialog, you should use the onDone() handler to 
>react to the user's actions, leaving the accepted() signal to be handled by 
>users of >your dialog.

Because I'm not creating a custom dialog component, I am actually the user of 
the dialog, so that's why I'm handling the onAccepted() signal. ;)

I've demonstrated what I'm experiencing in this video: 
http://ubuntuone.com/71UqvktzqGWMvukeVTW8Qy (should be viewable in any HTML5 
video supporting browser, that supports WebM, like Firefox and Chromium).

Kind Regards,

Superpelican

On 08/05/2013 01:38 PM, Matthew Vogt wrote:
Hi Superpelican.
Thanks for catching the errors in the Dialog documentation, I will correct them.

In your Clamshell dialog, you do not need to explicitly pop() the dialog page 
in response to the accept action; it is popped by the user's interaction 
(either a drag or an 'Accept' click), and the accepted signal is generated in 
response to this event.

Also, as the implementor of the Dialog, you should use the onDone() handler to 
react to the user's actions, leaving the accepted() signal to be handled by 
users of your dialog.

Thanks,
Matt

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the Dialog component

Hello,

Sfiet_Konstantin and I have had another debugging session on IRC recently with 
my app.
(http://merproject.org/logs/%23sailfishos/%23sailfishos.2013-08-03.log)

I had defined a handler that would be called when the user accepted a dialog. 
However
we saw that the handler was never called. Then I noticed that the documentation 
page
on the Silica Reference about the Dialog component has an error in it. The 
description part
of the page described that an user can accept a dialog by pushing it from right
to left.

But the onAccepted() signal hander description described that the user could 
accept a dialog
by pushing it from left to right. Well I tested it in the emulator and the 
description of the
Dialog component at the top of the page is correct. However the description of 
the onAccepted()
signal handler is incorrect. Instead when you push the dialog from left to 
right you reject it!

So every time I thought I was accepting the dialog, I actually rejected it! ;) 
I had only read the wrong part
of the documentation page.

The onRejected() signal handler description is incorrect too. It says you can 
reject a dialog by pushing it
from right to left. Which actually accepts the dialog.

I hope someone can edit the Silica Reference, so that not more developers read 
the wrong part and wonder
why their defined action doesn't occur! ;)


Also we noticed that when a dialog is accepted, it isn't popped from the 
pageStack. While according to Sfiet_Konstantin
this should happen. This is especially a problem in my app, where the app has a 
homescreen where a mode is chosen.
Then when a particular mode is chosen the user is first prompted for a dialog, 
to enter information that is required for
that mode to operate. After the user has accepted the dialog, the mode begins. 
The user can quit the mode and return
to the homescreen by simply pushing away the "mode page".

However when the user does that, the dialog is still there and he/she
will have to reject the dialog too and will then finally return to the 
homescreen. Not only does this require another action from the user,
it can also be confusing to see a dialog with the previously entered value 
still in it. Some users will think they need to accept the dialog.
But if they do, they'll return to the "mode page", not the homescreen. This can 
be very confusing.

This can all be seen in this video: http://ubuntuone.com/7MIfo6vKsdqg9PmgSQ9iH4 
(note: this requires a browser that supports HTML5, otherwise
you'll need to download the video and play it in your local video player). 
Unfortunately the video has a very low framerate. Sfiet_Konstantin and I
don't know whether this is due to my laptop not being particulary highly spec'd 
or Wayland causing the low framerate. I can remember recording
applications and games with another recordmydesktop frontend on a much lower 
spec'd computer, so I doubt that computer is too slow.

The source code of my app can be found at 
http://bitbucket.org/Superpelican/quick_clamshell/src/

I hope this is helpful for the sailors/Jollaians,

Superpelican

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