Hi - I'm using iUI inside a UIWebView in an native iOS app - I'm using it to display user documentation, and it looks nice.

I have a problem though - when at the top level of the uIU hierarchy, I want to back button to stay visible (with a custom label), and when clicked I need iUI to fire off an external http:// request, which my native app can intercept and pop the iUI off my navigation stack.

I've tried a few things, but I'm struggling to get it to work. I get get a button to appear, but it doesn't seem to do anything when at the top level. I've tried adding a new pattern to the native URL patterns, and trying to intercept that, but I never see the request being fired.

My Javascript skills are not great...anybody know how to solve this problem ?

Thanks !

You could try creating a top-level landing page (aka div) with id
#landing and then a separate page/div with id #home.  If #landing is the
iUI root, but you link to
http://yoursite/iuipage.html#home then you'll always go to the #home
page (with a visible transition that you might not want), but the
#landing page will be accounted for in the back button.  You could then
listen on one of the iUI extension events to call your external http
link and return to your native UI.

The "focus" event for #landing might be the event you want to use -- if
you want to catch things as early as possible (before the backward
transition from #home to #landing begins)

Remi's suggestion is good, too.  It will require some DOM manipulation
on your part, but will give you more control.

You might end up having to hack on iui.js a little yourself -- which
could be an opportunity to improve your JavaScript skills.  If you get
the basics working and there's away for us to modify iUI to better
support this type of thing - let us know.

-- Sean