Best way to keep an ordered list of windows (from most-recently created to oldest)?
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09-06-2019 - |
Question
What is the best way to manage a list of windows (keeping them in order) to be able to promote the next window to the top-level when the current top-level window is closed.
This is for a web application, so we're using jQuery Javascript.
We'd talked through a few simplistic solutions, such as using an array and just treating [0] index as the top-most window.
I'm wondering if there's any potentially more efficient or useful alternative to what we had brainstormed.
Solution
A stack if you want to just close the window on top. A queue if you also need to open windows at the end.
OTHER TIPS
I don't really know javascript, but couldn't you create a stack of windows?
Stack/queue in JS is a simple array, which can be manipulated with .push(val)
, .pop()
, .shift(val)
and .unshift()
.