[Essometer]

Hello, I'm new to the Kodi addon und skin development and I have a question:
Is there a way to nest to list into each other? So that I have vertical list that I cab fill with horizontal lists.
I know that lists have only one row and I think that a panel container needs to know beforehand what rows or colums it will hold.

My goal is to extend the kodi IRC Addon so that twitch emotes can be
displayed. The problem I face is that the used list that holds the messages only needs one entry to hold a message.
If I were to include the emote pictures, I would have to split the message in multiple parts which can be either a picture or
a label. These parts would have to go into the same rows. But thats not possible with a simple list, as far as I know.

[sualfred]

Nope, not possible.

Depending on the use case you can use some "hacks" to fake it.

Example:
- Some vertical list containers next to each other
- Hidden button control to control the movement

Hidden control example

Code:

<control type="button" id="20">
               <left>-10</left>
        <top>-10</top>
        <width>1</width>
        <height>1</height>
        <font>-</font>
        <texture>-</texture>
        <texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
        <texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
        <alttexturenofocus>-</alttexturenofocus>
        <alttexturefocus>-</alttexturefocus>
        <textureradiofocus>-</textureradiofocus>
        <textureradionofocus>-</textureradionofocus>
            <onleft>noop</onleft>
            <onright>30</onright>
            <onup condition="String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">noop</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">Control.Move(100,-1)</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">Control.Move(200,-1)</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">Control.Move(300,-1)</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">Control.Move(400,-1)</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">Control.Move(500,-1)</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">Control.Move(600,-1)</onup>
            <onup condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,1)">SetFocus(21)</onup>
            <ondown condition="String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">SetFocus(9001)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">Control.Move(100,1)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">Control.Move(200,1)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">Control.Move(300,1)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">Control.Move(400,1)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">Control.Move(500,1)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">Control.Move(600,1)</ondown>
            <ondown condition="!String.IsEqual(Container(100).CurrentItem,8)">SetFocus(21)</ondown>
            <onclick>SetFocus(200)</onclick>
            <onclick>Select</onclick>
            <onclick>SetFocus(20)</onclick>
        </control>

[Essometer]

Thanks for the clarification. I think vertical list container wouldn't solve my problem,
since I don't know how many container I'd need. The container count would be runtime specific.
I don't understand how the hidden button control would work.

Is there maybe a way to display label and picture form the same ListItem in a row?

EDIT: I still haven't found a solution to my problem. Basically what I need is to set the posx tags manually,
so that multiple labels and pictures don't overlap. The other posibillity is to use a grouplist,
so that the alignment for multiple labels and pictures is done for me.
But what I learned was that you can not edit the posx tag via properties and that there is no way to add an
ListItem to a grouplist because there is no controller in python for that.

Maybe someone can give me a hint or tell me that it's not possible so I can stop searching.