Custom LabelList allowing setting of content in parentXML

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I would like to extend LabelList (component let’s name it MyListMenu) in a way that I can reuse some layout settings accros my channel, and specify it’s content when used in xml.

What I would like to achieve is an option to specify something like this

I have a problem, that I can’t find a way to define MyListMenu to handle setting of content and putting it in right place.
My xml for MyListMenu
<component name=“MyListMenu” extends=“LabelList” xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=“https://devtools.web.roku.com/schema/RokuSceneGraph.xsd”
initialFocus=“contentGroup”

With code above ContentNode is displayed, but I cannot put it into LabelList with id “contentGroup”, what is a proper approach to achieve this behavior?

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Ha, this is interesting! What you are trying to do is override in XML the .content field. Have you tried using the role karnapidasana?

Alternatively, you can do that in brightscript.

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Thanks, it at least got me somewhere, although not really in a clean way, but I can observe field content in my control, and then assign contentnode to a list inside. I also had to “forward” item selected events, but at least I got this working.

I wasn’t able to use role to set content of my internal list directly, maybe some day we will find a proper yoga position for that.