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Hi.

A textbox is supposedly able to autosize. Doesn't work. Doesn't matter..
Is there a way to dynamically size objects?

In my wip skin I overexpose albuminfo on a darkened transparent area that is again overexposed on the fanart. I have no choice but to darken a fixed size area. Looks stupid be because some albuminfo texts are short and some are long.

I want the textbox to autosize and bottomalign with the fanart.
I want the darkened area (image) to autosize with the teztbox.

If python is necessary then so be it.

Halp plaese :-)
Use
Code:
<height>auto</height>

No bottom align but you can fake it inside a grouplist -

https://github.com/HitcherUK/skin.copace...fo.xml#L41
Thanks Hitcher.

I still dont know how to make the darkened area match the size of the textbox?
The teztbox is either doing text align bottom or resizing. I cannot tell the difference. But its nice.
Code:
Container(ID).HasNext
Pardon my lack if knowledge but that hint left me looking very confused. :-)
This will tell you if the textbox has more pages or not which is what you need to know for the darkened area right?
Most likely.. Would you kindly chew it up for me further?

Keep in mind I am new to this.

I will explain what my goal is again:
I need the textbox to have a darker area "below" - as in zindex below - to improve readability because it is overexposed on the fanart. The only way I know of is to add an image control for this and place it at the same coordinates aa the texbox, and drawn before the textbox. But I have no clue how to make the image resize to match the textbox (with a margin ofcpurse)

Is the grouplist control able to crop the image?

it is very possible that a better method exist that I don't know of!

Thanks for your patience :-)