Using image resource icons in containers

I guess there is no way to use an image resource as a source of icon images to display in a container, for example, movie genre icons in a panel container? That seems to limit the usefulness of the resource concept. Unless there is some way to do this that I can’t figure out I hope devs consider working on this feature in the future. Also my assumption is that if the image resource has compiled images in a texture.xbt file there is no way to access the images except using Kodi resource handler?

scott s.
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