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I guess there is no way to use an image resource as a source of icon images to display in a container, for example, movie genre icons in a panel container? That seems to limit the usefulness of the resource concept. Unless there is some way to do this that I can't figure out I hope devs consider working on this feature in the future. Also my assumption is that if the image resource has compiled images in a texture.xbt file there is no way to access the images except using Kodi resource handler?
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phil65
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it works in some way, you can find an example in estuary, go to "studios" node and download the icon pack via sidebar if not yet downloaded.
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OK took a look but it's hard-coded in the xml to "resource://resource.images.studios.white/,.png" so user can't select his/her own studio icons (eg, colored). Maybe not so big a deal for studios, but there are a number of icon packs for genres and I would really want the user to select. I suppose I could create a "dummy" image resource add-on per type and write an add-on to move the textures from a downloaded resource into the "dummy" one (so I could hard-code the dummy into the container) but I imagine moving files between add-ons via another add-on is probably considered "illegal". Don't know off-hand how to handle the case of the images are jpg versus png format though.
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The problem here is that skin strings are not available inside containers.
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Yes, that would be the ideal solution, or allow window properties to be referenced. I found an old thread claiming it was intentional to prevent performance problems.
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