[pieh]

Hi,
I wasn't around much last month so I guess I missed request for this.

I'd say that now there is no good way to pass data containing multiple entries/items (i.e. cast list, album's track list, subtitles/audio streams list) to skin. We usually hardcode some list id to fill it with items (cast / track list). We need to add some mechanism to automate control/items creation, for example:

1.

Code:

<control type="grouplist">
    [...]
    <template end="$INFO[Window.Property(AudioLanguage.Count)]" begin="1" step="1"> <!-- begin and step could be optional -->
        <control type="image">
            <width>48</width>
            <height>48</height>
            <texture>$INFO[Window.Property(AudioLanguage.%d),flags/language/,.png]</texture>
        </control>
    </template>
    [...]
</control>

and/or
2.

Code:

<control type="grouplist">
    [...]
    <template source="AudioLanguages">
        <control type="image">
            <width>48</width>
            <height>48</height>
            <texture>$INFO[Entry,flags/language/,.png]</texture> <!-- for complex types like cast things like Entry.ActorName, EntryRole could be used -->
        </control>
    </template>
    [...]
</control>

This could be used in grouplists and static containers. I remember there was idea like this before but I never got to do anything in this direction.

After having such mechanism in place it would be really easy to add access to audio/subtitles streams (plus it would allow some nice stuff to be done with VideoPlayer.Cast)