Passing options to settings pages

Question

In our application settings, the user can see a list of accounts they have set up. Now I want to enable them to configure these accounts by navigating to a second-level settings page (like the Mail app does), probably using SettingsFlyout.showSettings. But using this functionality I can't pass any parameters to that page (which would specify which account should be displayed in that sub-page).

Is there a recommended way to do this?

All the best
Marcus

Answer 1

Hi

So how about store the parameter in a global object?

Please refer to this two discussion:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sa/winappswithhtml5/thread/531a422c-7691-491b-82be-1e54b96421fb

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/1da1a14f-a939-43fc-8e96-24f9374005ee/

And also read this:

Storing and retrieving state efficiently (Metro style apps using JavaScript and HTML)

Answer 2

Storing the options in a global object is what I'm doing at the moment but it doesn't seem very elegant to me from a software design point of view. It does work but I was hoping there was a better option.