I'm currently in the process of designing a new MX-3000 interface. My design features a toolbar which persists across every page with helpful buttons and info. One of these is a "Useful Tools" button which jumps to a page featuring an assortment of buttons that are useful across many different activities, like an aspect ratio button, a sound field button, night/loudness buttons, etc.

For the sake of ease of use, what I'd really like to do with this Useful Tools page is include a button that returns you to whatever page you came from. I'm finding this tricky to implement though, and I'm looking for advice on how (and if) it can be done. I can think of at least one way, but it would be extremely cumbersome to program.

I appreciate any help you guys can give.

The only immediately obvious idea I can think of is a variable for every single page. That would indeed be cumbersome. To make things a little bit easier, you could do a set of device variables and a set of page number variables. Take your device with the most number of pages and make that many page variables, then a variable for each of your devices and just store the current device and the current page number. That will still be a beast to program because you are going to have to write a set of processing macros that will return you to the correct page.

I have the same issue on help pages. I just make a help screen for each device and the return functionality takes them to the root of the device. Let us know if you come up with anything.

Regards,
-aedile-

Yeah, the variable for every page is exactly the cumbersome trick I was thinking of. Your idea of nesting the variables into device-then-page would probably be more efficient, so if there's no other way, I may do that. Of course, the other option is to just forget specific pages and jump back to the device's first page. It wouldn't be quite as elegant, but it'd probably be good enough. Still, the exact-page method would be preferable.

Anyone else have ideas?

When programming your jump for your "back" button in the Jump dialog box, just check "Select from Default Jump" and then choose "Navigate -" from the drop-down list.

Now you have a "Back" button that returns to whatever page you arrived from.

Best regards,
Dale

If I am not mistaken Darnitol they are talking about jumping from say device A to device B, cycling through multiple pages under device B, then being able to jump back to the specific page under device A they had original come from in one button press. The "Navigate -" function in this case is not a suitable solution as it's simply a browse backwards. Am I understanding you correctly tepidohare?

Actually Lowpro, my "Useful Tools" page is just a single page; it's designed to put all the most used configuration options available in one place with a single button press from any device page you're on.

Darnitol, I will try out your method and see how it works. Thanks.

Yes, in the scenario you describe, Navigate - would not work. In a case like that, I would probably make my multi-page Options Menu screen that presents jumps to pages of sub-options. You could then have a Back button on each sub-options page which simply performs two Navigate - jumps, returning you to the page where you started. In this case, your Back button would always return you to the original page you started from, not to the Options Menu.

It's not perfectly elegant, but it would accomplish the desired result.

Your solution worked perfectly, Darnitol. Thanks a lot!