Pop-ups
Pop-ups are a special case in Fabulous for Xamarin.Forms: they are part of the view, but don’t follow the same lifecycle as the rest of the UI. In Xamarin.Forms pop-ups are exposed through 2 methods of the current page: DisplayAlert
and DisplayActionSheet
.
In Fabulous for Xamarin.Forms we only describe what a page should look like and have no access to UI elements. As such, there is no direct implementation of those 2 methods in Fabulous but instead we can use the static property Application.Current.MainPage
exposed by Xamarin.Forms.
Here is an example of the use of a confirmation pop-up - note the requirement of Cmd.AsyncMsg
so as not to block on the UI thread:
Why don’t we add a Fabulous wrapper for those? Doing so would only end up duplicating the existing methods and compel us to maintain these in sync with Xamarin.Forms. See Pull Request #147 for more information
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