Repeater view

[patrik-u]

This is a view that repeats its content based on a ObservableList source. It does function in a special way in that it can be invisible to the parent view that only sees the repeated content. So you can do things like:

<Group>
    <Repeater Items="{Highscores}">
        <Label Text="{#Item.PlayerName} {#Item.Score}" />
    </Repeater>
</Group>

And the repeater will actually not be a child of the group but hide somewhere (in the root of the hierarchy) and when Highscores changes it updates the children of Group. It also keeps adds/removes/rearranges the content as the Highscores list changes. If the Group is removed the repeater self-destructs 😄.

What is nice about this is that the Group can do its thing and group the repeated elements, without the repeater view being in the way.