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Questions tagged [back]

Method or control to return user to previous state, page or screen.

Refers to questions about preventing, detecting, handling, controlling, etc:

  1. The back button on web browsers
    • History of visited sites
    • Backing out of a "dirty" page
  2. The hardware or software back button on smartphones and other similar devices
  3. Navigation in Android/IOS applications
    • Returning to the previous view
    • Exiting the application (Android)

et cetera.

Does not refer to

  • Keyboard backspace key (^H)
  • Keyboard delete key (^?)
  • Reverse side of a physical device
  • Previous versions of an application
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Doesnt go normal after hitting back button

When I open a certain class which extends ArrayAdapter there is something strange happening when I go to another screen en hit the back button. I set that for certain values the background of the inflated xml file should be set to grey…
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Hierarchy navigation back button

I need to implement a back button for my asp application. In my web application I got 3 module task1.aspx ->task1-1.aspx ->task1-2.aspx task2.aspx-> task2-1.aspx->task3-1.aspx task3.aspx->task3-1.aspx->task2.1aspx In the above example.3 module…
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Login. form Back button post data

I am creating a login form using post method. It is working fine. The logout button work fine. But when I pressed back button the browser and reach the login page where user submit the id and password the resend option is there. Then it resend the…
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disable back press only when the application would otherwise go to the background in Android

My application should ask the user for a confirmation before putting the application in the background when the user presses the back button. I tried to override dispatchKeyEvent. The problem is that I also have fragments that are pushed in the…
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CakePHP no layout on back and forward button

We're building a large CMS in CakePHP with a Croogo install incorporated. We've run into an issue recently where the layout is not rendered correctly when users click the back in the browser (or the forward button for that matter). What you end up…
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android: cancel notification on back pressed

I want to cancel all notifications related to my app when the back button is clicked. I am not able to find a way. Have you any idea?
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window.open in web application for iPad running in fullscreen replaces the existing window

I am writing a simple (ASP.NET) web application for the iPad. It is written and works well however one feature is it serving up PDF files (among others). To do this I used window.open to open the file. When this is done in Safari, it works…
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Go back with UIModalTransitionStyle

That's what I'm trying to do: I have a navigationController based app and many different views. Let's say that on the third view, I want to view the view 4 using UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical. That I have done it using this…
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android control back button while a dialog is on the screen

I have a timer which runs continously. When I press the BACK button I made a dialog to appear where you can quit from that intent or go back and cointinue the timer what has been stopped by the BACK button. Well if I click on the contimnue, the…
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Android Back Button Causing Bad Keycharmap warning

I am coding a java application for android. In the application, I am using the back button on the phone as a way to cancel a task I am running. However, when I press it, in the Log Cat, I get the following: 08-30 10:45:25.784:…
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How to make the back button act as the home button in Android

I have a very simple application. The app asks a question and depending on what the user clicks a different text is shown. Now, when the home button is pressed the phone goes to the home screen and the app pauses. But when I press the back button…
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Disable an android button pressing twice

I have an activity which contains a back button. when it is pressed, it starts another activity which contains a back button in same position. But the problem is it takes few seconds to start activity because it does some heavy task in background.…
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Multiple Instances on Back pressed

I have an audio player which has two main activities. 1.The splash Activity for loading splash page and another for the player.When I press the back button and select my app from the launcher multiple instances of the activities are…
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Custom action When Pressing 'back button' on a UINavigationController

I am using story boards to create my app, and I have a navigation controller which navigated back and forth between pages. Now when it goes back to a page (e.g. when the user taps the back button), I need the page which the user is going back to to…
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Collapsing previous activities and restarting the app

I have an Android app in which activity A calls activity B which calls activity C. in activity C there is button to restart the whole thing but the user should be able to navigate between the activities if he presses the back button. I've tried…
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