September 2001 - Zope-Announce

MetaPublisher 1.2.6 released
by Mark Pratt 29 Sep '01

29 Sep '01

Hello all, We are pleased to announce the release of MetaPublisher 1.2.6. MetaPublisher is a helpful tool to create complex forms. It permits you to manage data without having to know how to program. Unique features include the ability to easily extend what type of data can be manipulated through "field types" as well as the storing of presets. Several field types and basic presets are included in the package. Get it MP via this URL: http://www.beehive.de/zope/freeware/metapublisher.html -------- Changes Include: - 2 new methods for handling entries - getting rid of the warning messages that came up with Zope 2.4 - a brand new preset "Messageboard" which is an easy to use Messageboard / Discussionboard. We have also included patches by Jens Quade which do the following: - check for illegal field ids in Configuration: "id", "title" and "name" (now raise an error) - access to MP entries from outside MetaPublisher: - variable Acuisition path length allowed in getEntryField.py ftypes/file/main.py: ftypes/image/main.py: - verify() doesn't require filename attribute Interfaces: NEW: Formulator Integration - support for Formulator form, show_form method, handle_form method Doesn't work for image/file uploads yet, at least not the version generated by default. Especially deletion is not possible now. - Add Form Modification to Add Form to optionally pass new key to action called after add. This enables an easy way to send mail or do other things upon entry creation. -ListForm ListForm calls deleteEntry with it's own URL as action after deletion - enables using other names than index_html for the add/edit/del page" -------- Regards, Mark -------------------------------------------------------------- mark pratt (managing director) mark(a)beehive.de beehive elektronische medien GmbH http://www.beehive.de phone: +49 30 847-82 0 fax: +49 30 847-82 299

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exUserFolder support RADIUS and SMB
by Andrew Kenneth Milton 29 Sep '01

29 Sep '01

exUserFolder now support authentication over SMB and RADIUS, out of the box. RADIUS support is thanks to Stuart Bishop, whose ZRadius product I plundered. SMB does not require smb_pam or any other external modules to function, thanks to pySMB from Michael Teo. This should work for NT or UNIX users (or any platform that supports TCP/IP and Python). These new authentication methods are early, and don't feature things such as credential caching as yet, but, we'd like to get some testing up on them first before we do that. exUserFolder now support 6 methods of authentication in the basic download; o smb o RADIUS o Postgresql o ZODB o File Based o User Supplied (similar to GUF) There are also three other authentication sources offered by 3rd parties. exUserFolder currently supports attaching ad-hoc and formal attaching of properties to Users, and allows properties to be stored via postgresql, CMF or in the ZODB, with a generic SQL property source in the works. Sources are easy to create. Anyone with some knowledge of python should be able to create their own Authentication Source in under an hour. More information is currently available from http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/exUserFolder/ -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm(a)theinternet.com.au|

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Zope training in Paris, France, Oct. 15-18
by Stefane Fermigier 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

Zope training in Paris, France, Oct. 15-18 Nuxeo (http://nuxeo.com/) the leading french Zope solution provider, is pleased to announce that it has scheduled a 4 days Zope training session in Paris, from October 15 to 18, 2001. The session, titled Sites collaboratifs et gestion de contenu avec Zope et le CMF, is aimed at Web developpers and project managers. The language used during the session will be french. More information on the Web (http://nuxeo.com/news/10/) by email: (training(a)nuxeo.com) or by phone (+33 1 40 33 79 87). Note: if the session's program doesn't fit your training needs, you can still contact us for personalized training. S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). http://nuxeo.com/ & http://portalux.com/ & http://aful.org/

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NIP Launches Personal Zope Hosting Option
by Chris Withers 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

NIP is proud to announce the launch of the Personal Zope Hosting Option. The option includes: - One instance of Zope running on one of our Personal Hosting servers, accessible through a domain name similar to: http://youraccount.personalzope.nipltd.net - Virtual Hosting of a domain name registered with a third-party DNS hosting service. For example: http://www.yourdomain.com --> http://youraccount.personalzope.nipltd.net - The ability to change Zope Versions quickly and easily. - Web-based account management with our Account Management System. - FTP access to your Zope Instance, Products, Extensions and logs. - WebDAV source port access to your Zope Instance. - Access to an SMTP mail server to send outgoing mail using, for example, a Zope MailHost object. The cost is £30 per month (roughly $40 per month). More information can be found at: http://www.nipltd.net/Personal This hosting option complements the Free, Professional and Enterprise Zope Hosting Options already available from http://www.nipltd.net. If you have any hosting-related questions, please send them to hosting(a)zope.nipltd.com. cheers, Chris

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Unicode support patches updated
by Toby Dickenson 24 Sep '01

24 Sep '01

I am happy to announce another update to my patches to provide good Unicode support in Zope. Changes since version 0.5: * Support for Zope 2.4.1. * no new features. * instructions for Unicode-capable xml-rpc. http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring Toby Dickenson tdickenson(a)geminidataloggers.com

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exUserFolder + Membership + CMF = 0.7.0
by Andrew Kenneth Milton 23 Sep '01

23 Sep '01

exUserFolder is now at 0.7.0, after a lot of hair pulling over membership support. First stab at Membership services have been added to exUserFolder (optionally activated). Alan Runyan (who seems to hate being called Alan) provided a CMF Property Source to allow exUserFolder to integrate a little more nicely with CMF. Property sources are now optional, and so if you don't want all that property support you can turn it off (of course membership won't work if you do that). exUserFolder details can be found at; http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/exUserFolder/ The ChangeLog is at; http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/exUserFolder/Changes -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | | ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 | Carpe Daemon PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm(a)theinternet.com.au|

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Initial Releases of MatLabDA, Latex- and Graph Method
by Stephan Richter 23 Sep '01

23 Sep '01

Hello everyone, Due to the intensive work on zQuest, I was able to finish a lot of work. Since some of the development for zQuest can be split into several small Products, I decided to take today off and do that. So three products were born: ** MatLab DA and Method ** This product allows you to "connect" to the MatLab Kernel and then execute mathematical expressions (in MatLab syntax). Each statement is separated by a new line. Some of the nicer features are actually in the MatLab Connection component. It keeps a pool (size is specified by user) of connections to the MatLab Kernel. When a query is executed the used connection is locked (and afterwards released) to provide a maximally optimized response time. Originally Zope and PyMat (The module used to connect to MatLab) did not like each other, since Zope would regularly reload modules causing the PyMat module to produce a segmentation fault. Thanks to Jason Orendorff's "DestructionListener" idea I was able to catch the reload occurrences and handle them gracefully. URL: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/MatLabDA ** Latex Method ** Using the Latex Method one can compile math-mode Latex code into an image that is displayed. The LatexMethod uses the Image class as base, so that the same API applies. The Latex Method is very flexible and supports the AMS (American Mathematical Society) Latex Extensions. It might seem that there are many requirements associated with this product, but I developed on a standard RedHat Linux machine and I had no problems. All tools (Latex, Ghostview, small conversion tools) were all there by default. URL: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/LatexMethod ** Graph Method ** The Graph Method is similar to the Latex Method in the sense that it creates an image from a given piece of code. In fact, the object provides a nice graphing environment based on PIL (Python Imaging Library). On top of PIL there are several other features. For educational purposes it is often nice to have "moving pictures", so I added Animation support to allow animated GIFs (using GIFSicle, which you will need to install). Furthermore there are a couple of very useful components that can be used to quickly generate nice results: Arrow, Vector, Grid, Axis, Coordinate System, Data Point, Function Curve and Random Data Curve. A complete API reference can be found in the Appendix of the zQuest Users manual, which can be downloaded from http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZQuest/Documentation. URL: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/LatexMethod I hope that you will find one or the other product useful and will try it. Since they all have outside dependencies, I would like to hear about your experiences. As always, I am thankful to any comments, suggestions and criticism. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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ATTENTION: Zope.org migration issues
by Martijn Pieters 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

Hello to all Members of Zope.org, As some of you may know, we are hard at work building a new Zope.Org website based entirely on the CMF. Because this is going to be a completely new server, content on the current server has to be migrated and converted for the new site. Most of the content on Zope.org can be migrated quite easily. However, there are a few content types in use on Zope.org that cannot or will not be migrated directly or at all. These types will have to be converted to another content type if they are to be migrated to the new site. You only have to worry about content in your own Member Folder, and only if you really want it migrated. Here are the problem types and what to do with the content they represent: - DTML Method: paste the contents into a 'STX Document' for structured text, or 'Formatted Document' for html formatting. DTML scripting will no longer be supperted on the new Zope.org site. - XML Document: XML Document is usually used to act as the source for a end-document. Render the end-document view to HTML and paste the result into a Formatted Document - ZTopic: Unfortunately, there is no alternative for migrating a ZTopic. If you have created a ZTopic in your Member Folder and feel that it provides value to Zope.org visitors let me know and I'll see if we can provide an alternative. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@zope.com | Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------

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Zope Controller GUI 1.1.2 (Mac OS X) released with source
by Richard Jones 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

Bizar Software is pleased to make available a new release of their Zope Controller GUI for Mac OS X. This release really removes the start script, adds file selection dialogs and fixes some race conditions in startup/shutdown. The binary now uses the standard OS X installer. This is also hopefully the last "development" release of the controller. The Mac OS X Zope Controller is a Graphical User Interface for Mac OS X which allows user-friendly control of a Zope server on the local machine. This is a modified version of the controller we will ship with the next version of our Bizar Shop software product. The modification involves the removal of some Shop-specific code that simply doesn't apply to Zope. Screenshots are available at Bizar Software's website. Zope Controller information and download: http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/zope_controller/ Bizar Software: http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au/ Richard

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ZBabel 2.0.0 beta 1 released
by Stephan Richter 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Hello everyone, I am very pleased to announce The Zope Babel Translation System 2.0.0 beta 1. It has been a while that I made a release, but I finally got around it and made some of the annoying bug fixes. URL: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ZBabel (my Zope Site) URL: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZBabel (iuveno's Demo Site) Some of the new "features" in this release include: - Made ZBabel Zope 2.4 & Python 2.1 compatible by replacing regex with re and fixing a bug in the tag code. - Finally added support, so that an attribute in any tag of the kind name='value' is interpreted as name having a string (and not an expression) as value. - Made the 'SQL Methods' and 'Init Tables/Views' Zope GUI 2.3+ compatible. - Added a management screen (not available over a tab) that allows to edit long phrases by providing textareas. You can get to this screen by clicking on the label of the phrase. When you press "Edit", then you will be brought back to the regular translation screen. Please feel free to send me any comments and criticism to srichter(a)cbu.edu. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

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