[Hitcher]

According to the wiki it should show a 'concatenated string of cast members of the currently selected movie' when used in dialogvideoinfo.xml but all I can get it to show is one actor.

Broken?

[pecinko]

Never worked, AFAICT

[phil65]

Works here. Put it in a textbox or use label with wrapmultiline true.

[pecinko]

I see. Not very useful if it's formatted that way. This should be alternative to actors container and formatted as one liner IMHO

[Hitcher]

Another label where we could do with different format options.

Certainly missing Jonathan and pieh.

[Hitcher]

It is indeed presented as a list of names; perhaps an option of providing the separator would be possible?

ie

Code:

$INFO[ListItem.Cast(, )]    Actor 1, Actor 2, Actor 3, Actor 4
$INFO[ListItem.Cast( / )]    Actor 1 / Actor 2 / Actor 3 / Actor 4

In the meantime I'm pulling the names from the cast list (50) even though they include the role.

Code:

$INFO[Container(50).ListItem(0).Label], $INFO[Container(50).ListItem(1).Label], $INFO[Container(50).ListItem(2).Label], $INFO[Container(50).ListItem(3).Label], $INFO[Container(50).ListItem(4).Label]

[toolpunk]

I've started working on this, but I feel like Kodi's info system makes it kinda hard to pass a parameter to the cast tag. I'm still unsure about which route to take. I could separate the cast tag from the other listitems and handle it individually or I could add an additional parameter to a bunch of functions. I'm still looking for the third, pretty option.

[mkortstiege]

Without actually having looked at the code I'd go with an additional parameter for the separator that's optional to keep backward compatibility.

[toolpunk]

Skins would be backwards compatible anyway. It's just that none of the solutions I've come up with so far are even close to what you'd call aesthetically pleasing. Then again, I still haven't fully figured out the depths of the info system. So this might just take a little while longer than I originally expected.

[otemato]

Hi,

I try to retrieve Cast name and put it in ViewsVideoLibrary.xml as I have Director name or writer.
I tried to put :
$INFO[Container(50).ListItem(0).Label]

replacing the writer name :

$INFO[ListItem.Writer]

But it does not work.

Thanks

[Hitcher]

Only works for dialogvideoinfo.xml.

[otemato]

So there is no way to have the casts in ViewsVideoLibrary.xml, as we have other movie info when browsing movies?

[Hitcher]

No, as it would slow down the listing because of the extra database queries.

[otemato]

Thanks Hitcher.
Do you know if I can do something (a trick) to have the casts displayed?
maybe loading a small dialogvideoinfo.xml with just the casts in a block in ViewsVideoLibrary.xml ?

[Mike_Doc]

Go check out the Skin.Helper add-on, it has a cast solution.