September 1999 - Zope-Dev

Re: [Zope-dev] Another zope suggestion
by Christopher Petrilli 13 Oct '99

13 Oct '99

> Would it be possible to have a Zope feature to change the Python path > from Zope? Could you elaborate on what problem you are trying to solve? THis sounds awfully scary and frightening to me :-) Chirs -- Chris Petrilli

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PROPOSAL: Site objects
by Jim Fulton 10 Oct '99

10 Oct '99

I've put together a proposal for hosting vertual domains in Zope. See: http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/SiteObjectProposal Comments? Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Technical Director (888) 344-4332 Python Powered! Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.python.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.

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ANN: VisualStudio Preview released
by Anthony Pfrunder 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

Hi, I've uploaded the VisualStudio technology preview. I was hoping to add additional widgets before release but its so easy I didn't bother ;). Basically, VisualStudio when complete (~ 7 release cycles based on my normal product lifecycle ;) will provide a complete drag 'n drop javascript interface to Zope. It purposely doesn't support any DTML or other "programming" apart from javascript as you give it to your local web designer and say "whip up an interface for me". Then, you write the dtml handlers for the urls you gave them and voila! instant, active webpages! The DuoPath application by Dan Steinman (http://www.dansteinman.com/dynaduo) is what I'm modelling the system on. The left hand plain will contain a list of all widgets within the aquisition path + save and reload buttons, the middle contains the current workspace and the third contains a collaspable menu containing Properties, Behaviours, Themes and Events (gonna steal this one...). To use it, they create a form in the Zope interface and click on it. The interface described above will pop up and the Zope interface will show the XML representation of the form (just an XMLised HTML format). They can edit in either view. To create a widget, they click on the icon and drag its outline on the workspace and it is created automagically! The key thing here is that it works on both IE and NS - emulating iframes, behaviours etc when required. See the VisualStudio examples product for further information and a demo of a draggable colored box. Cheers, Anthony Pfrunder

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VisualStudio Product ideas
by Anthony Pfrunder 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Hi, Noting the recent release of the excellent XML Widgets of M.Faassen and the discussion on wysiwyg I thought I better pre-annouce my upcoming VisualStudio for Zope in case other people are working on the same thing. Currently, VisualStudio consists of 3 classes: Forms, Widgets and Behaviours. A Form is an XML document containing XHTML + Widgets. Widgets are represented by: <box name="mybox1" x=1 y=5 width=10 height=50 behaviours="" theme="None"> contents </box> within the form. They are rendered to HTML by calling a series of functions on a widget. A widget is another XML document in the aquisition path of the form: <widget name="box" behaviours=".."> <constructor>javascript constructor function</constructor> <builder> <CSS></CSS> <- use browsers to edit these <DIV></DIV> </builder> <code language = ''>additional javascript/dhtml/python method code</code> <body>What to replace the widget reference with</body> </widget> where each subelement is a PythonMethod called by passing the node within the form and the root node of the form. Hence, they can edit the copy of the form by obtaining information from other nodes within the widget. Finally, each widget can have a number of behaviours. Behaviours are like mix-in classes for javascript/dhtml. Currently behaviours include: draggable - makes a piece of html draggable on both NS & IE scrollable - cross-browser / themable iframes on NS & IE path-xxx - same properties as a gif animation but move html around in a preprogrammed path. resizable - add a resize button to it Example: to make a cross-browser, themable MDI window: <window name="mywin" behaviours="path-circle path-square resizeable".. theme="MyTheme"> This is a window </window> to show it: <a href="javascript:mywin.show()">Show it</a> to hide it: <a href="javascript:mywin.hide()">Show it</a> to change the theme: edit the Theme object (not started yet but is just a collection of images with some dhtml sugar to provide easy editing of them) So, in summary, VisualStudio merges javascript and Zope backend scripts into the same namespace. This is done by merging XML and javascript on both the sever and client. Future plans include porting the GPL DuoPath to create a Visual Basic style development environment with visual and xml style editing working side by side. Cheers, Anthony Pfrunder PS Check out Dan Steinman's DHTML tutorial: http://www.dansteinman.com/dynduo The code is GPL (_NOT_ the tutorial itself) is where I get the javascript from.

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Re: Australia/NSW timezone support
by Stuart 'Zen' Bishop 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

[Redirected to zope-dev for discussion] On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Chris Allen wrote: > Australian Zope users may be interested in some updates which add timezone > data for Australia/NSW (including daylight savings periods) and corrects a > "US/Eastern" problem. For further information see: > > http://www.zope.org/Members/kmem/tz_aus > > Maybe they will eventually find their way into the actual Zope product :o) Are you trying to get me lynched? Dang northerners are always looking for trouble :-) $ date Thu Sep 30 09:16:53 EST 1999 $ echo $TZ Australia/Victoria I think Australia/Tazmania is also EST, but they probably wouldn't notice :-) I wonder if the following would work? On module initialization, if the TZ environemnt variable exists override the hardcoded mappings so that the short form maps correctly to the long form This would work on my Solaris boxes out of the box, but would require setting the variable under other operating systems such as NetBSD and NT. Oh dear - I was going to check http://www.vic.gov.au to see if EST is eastern standard time or eastern savings time down here. Unfortunatly, this web address is an automatic redirect to itself, which is a wonderful comment on the current state of our gov :-) ___ // Zen (alias Stuart Bishop) Work: zen(a)cs.rmit.edu.au // E N Senior Systems Alchemist Play: zen(a)shangri-la.dropbear.id.au //__ Computer Science, RMIT WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zen

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Download continuation
by Lalo Martins 29 Sep '99

29 Sep '99

One more feature request... Use the continuation feature of HTTP 1.1+ would be cool for sites that offer large files (such as zope.org itself) []s, |alo +---- -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:lalo@webcom.com pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org

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announcing the Fortune product
by Lalo Martins 29 Sep '99

29 Sep '99

Perhaps zope-dev isn't the best place to announce a Product, but what the heck, it's a ``beta'' and I don't want end-users end-using it ``en masse'' yet :-) It adds a <dtml-fortune> tag that is replaced by a random fortune cookie. You may also do <dtml-fortune linux linuxcookie> to select only cookies from these two files; inexistent filenames are ignored. The Product is based on ZippyTag code. You have to have fortune files from the BSD fortune util hanging around; the standard location is /usr/share/games/fortunes because that's where the Linux FHS says it should be, if you want them elsewhere edit fortunesetup.py. The inspiration for the Product comes from Squishdot. Uh... it's optimized for speed, so it first randomizes on the file, then opens the file and randomizes on the cookie. Anyone objects to this? I figured delaying a lot of seconds while I open a ton of fortune files wouldn't be desireable. []s, |alo +---- -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:lalo@webcom.com pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org

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RE: [Zope] __init__.py does not work
by Ken Manheimer 29 Sep '99

29 Sep '99

Folks, please do not cross post - choose one audience or another! If you're responding to a cross posting, constrain to one list or another - you can post to the excluded list saying you're taking the conversation there, but i presume there's enough overlap in membership on the lists that too many people have to contend with multiple copies of your message... Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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RE: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog went bad?
by Michel Pelletier 29 Sep '99

29 Sep '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Becker [mailto:robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 9:39 AM > To: zope-dev(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog went bad? > > > I see this in ZCatalog after CVSing last night > > NameError: TemplateDict Fixed. -Michel

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RE: [Zope-dev] Expand all functionality for Confera
by Brian Lloyd 29 Sep '99

29 Sep '99

> In Confera the ?expand_all=1 addition to the end of the URL > was not working. > I went and did as much research as I could on how Confera > returned its 'branches' > I assumed that Confera was broken since the functionality > seemed to work for other types of trees. Upon further > investigation, I believe I have found the culprit to be in > the TreeTag.py as follows: >... > Now can anyone see anything wrong with it. I still have > functionality of all my > management trees, but don't know what other Zope-based apps > might depend on the broken code. Feedback welcome and > invited. (Also, I am not sure on change submission > protocol.) That looks right, and I've checked in the change after doing some testing here. As to the change submission protocol, bugs and feature requests should be posted to the Collector at: http://www.zope.org:8080/Collector/ Thanks! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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