Better Back button handling

Hi William,

We're actually working on a new release of Wizard right now so this is an excellent time to discuss it.

How would you envision this working, like add a flag that says either go through steps sequentially or via a stack of visited pages? The stack version would store the pages that you go to and when you press Back, it would just pop those off?

An update... this is now implemented for the next major Wizard release.

When will it be released and what about licensing?

Actually we've got everything almost done however there is an issue with the designer not serializing to code (in InitializeComponent) some property settings that are made while in the designer. These are for the new rendering features that allow for easy setup of gradient backgrounds, etc. Once we sort that out then Wizard will be almost ready for pre-release.

Sorry I'm just getting back to you--I forgot I had posted the message.

The way I implemented this was to create ny own form class the inherits WizardForm and keeps track of the actual page sequence (by overriding OnAfterPageSelect) using a stack. It then overrides OnBackButtonClick to pop the last page off the stack instead of using the sequence.

So yes, the option you described would work, but I don't see why you would ever want to use the page sequence rather than the stack--I can't think of a scenario where it would be appropriate for the Back button to go to a page other than the page the user was previously on.

William, if you would like to help us test the 3.0 pre-release, please send us an email.