November 2000 - Zope-Dev

zwiki 0.7.0 bugfix
by Simon Michael 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

this should resolve a problem with the recent release. From http://zwiki.org/FrontPageNews: "The original (pre-0.7.0) problem was this: in dtml modes, initial lines containing : followed by a blank line were not rendered (because they were considered to be http headers). The symptoms of my interim fix in 0.7.0 are this: ^M's appear at the beginning of pages and blank lines sometimes get eaten. I think I have a suitably ugly workaround now. It's running here and available in http://zwiki.org/zwikidir/releases/ZWiki-0.7.1rc3.tgz, please try it out."

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another debugging howto, and a question
by Simon Michael 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Here are some draft howto-like things some might find helpful (improvements welcome) : http://zwiki.org/ZopeDebuggingRoadmap http://zwiki.org/HowToDebugZopeInEmacs and a burning question: how can I invoke zserver such that I will get the interactive debug prompt ? I'd like to have my breakpoints trigger when I access the server in the normal way with a web browser, poke around, let it run on and do it again. I was able to do this in the past and it's useful. Many thanks! -Simon

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Documentation Documentation
by Michel Pelletier 03 Nov '00

03 Nov '00

Greetings, Amos and I have done some work in the fishbowl this week. We have started a new project to define the process for writing Zope documentation. This fishbowl project can be found at: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/DocumentationProcess/FrontPage The idea here is to open up as much as possible the process for determining the process of writing documentation. In case you don't follow that, let me put it a different way: We are using the Zope fishbowl process to develop a *new* process for writing documentation. One of the goals of this new process is to work itself into the existing fishbowl process for Zope projects, so that everyone has a clear documentation vision. All this gets a bit weird; meta-documentation and developing a process with The Process in order to modify The Process, but you'll get the idea if you read the wiki. What this is *not* is a roadmap for existing or future documentation artifacts. In other words, if you looking for juicy bits on the Developer's Guide or some other discreet Zope documentation artifact, you won't find it here. Because no process exists yet for writing documentation, we have not addressed these issues. When this project is completed, we will have a complete roadmap that everyone can understand for writing documentation, and then we will address the issues of actual documentation artifacts, like where they belong in CVS and format issues etc. So please check it out and leave your comments in the Wiki. Thanks, -Michel

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Re: [Zope-dev] Passing namespace to method
by Dieter Maurer 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Morten W. Petersen writes: > How do I construct a method of an object, so that whenever that method > is called, the current namespace is passed with it? This was discussed recently in the Zope-dev/Zope lists. Chris has opened the question, Jim answered (among others). Search the archive. Dieter

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Tag DTML
by Aitor Grajal Crespo 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Hello, I have coded my own DTML tag and i want to catch a property of the folder where the DTML-Coded is. How can i do this??? from DocumentTemplate.DT_Util import * # useful parsing methods you'll need from DocumentTemplate.DT_String import String # explained later class FuenteTag: name = 'fuente' blockContinuations=() expand=None def __init__(self, blocks): tname, args, section = blocks[0] self.tname=tname self.section=section args=parse_params(args, font='Verdana', size='2') self.args=args self.font = args.get('font','Verdana') self.size = args.get('size','2') def render(self, md): cadena = '<FONT FACE="'+self.font+'" SIZE="' + self.size + '">' +self.section(md)+'</FONT>' return cadena __call__ = render String.commands['fuente'] = FuenteTag /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Aitor Grajal Crespo Director General e-mail: Aitor.Grajal(a)inetsysonline.com INETSYS, S.L. ETSI Informática Ctra. Colmenar, km. 15,500 28049 MADRID SPAIN Tfno : (34) 91 348 22 66 - Fax : (34) 91 348 22 66 http://www.inetsysonline.com /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

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Moving ZClass app to 2.2.2
by Jason Spisak 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Zopists, When I start up Zope with my .zexp of my ZClass based product from 2.0 I get this message. 2000-10-27T23:36:46 ERROR(200) Zope Couldn't install Staff Traceback (innermost last): File /home/jason/Zope-2.2.0/lib/python/OFS/Application.py, line 478, in install_products (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions) (Info: Staff) File /home/jason/Zope-2.2.0/lib/python/App/Product.py, line 435, in initializeProduct (Object: Products.Staff) File /home/jason/Zope-2.2.0/lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py, line 208, in importFile SystemError: Failed to import class _ZClass_for_CatalogAware from module Products.ZCatalog Everything works, I can get my data in and out. Only I get some strange behavior from the CatalogAware zclasses (they don't pay attention to the "sort" attribute of searches for example) Is there anything I can do to make the move to 2.2.2 100%? Put a phantom class in the ZCatalog folder? All my best, Jason Spisak

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ZPatterns, Racks, Customizers, etc.
by Bill Anderson 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Looking for some docs, however incomplete, on programmatically (DTML OR Python) add a Specialist (or Specialist Derived ZClass) and set up teh defaultRack, and add a Skinscript/Trigger. I would also like to be able to set the ZClass storage too ... That's not asking much, is i ? :) -- E PLURIBUS LINUX

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[Ann] ZUnit released
by Lalo Martins 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Okay, the cat is out of the bag (in fact, going to Rio for the weekend) and the worms are out of the can (better worms than bugs, anyway). ZUnit, the Product all lazy programmers were so afraid of, is available for review and download from your usual shop at http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/ZUnit completely FREE, from the hands of your friends Lalo and Hiperlógica! In comemoration of the release, we're holding the "meta-testing contest": Whoever contributes some unit tests for ZUnit itself, will win her name in the credits, plus a better and more stable Product in the future, and an exclusive Warm Fuzzy Feeling (TM)! Don't miss this oportunity! Check it out right now! []s, |alo +---- -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo mailto:lalo@hackandroll.org pgp key: http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo/pessoal/pgp Brazil of Darkness (RPG) --- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar

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ZPatterns Folder W/Customizer Support not aquiring title property
by Bill Anderson 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

I have a Folder w/cs in my root folder, call it spamcan. Root folder has a title defined, lets say it is "Spam Central" A DTML Method in spamcan should display "Spam Central" when doing a <dtml-var title>, should it not? -- Bill Anderson E PLURIBUS LINUX

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Re: [Zope] Multi-lingual sites and workflow
by Petr van Blokland 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Lee Hunter wrote: > I was wondering if anyone here has used Zope to create > bilingual/multi-lingual/localised websites. > > I've done a number of bilingual (French and English) projects in recent > years using plain old html where the two language versions had to be kept > mostly symmetrical and its been a bit of a pain as the site grows to keep > the two versions in synch and make sure the translations are done on time > etc. > > Its seems that Zope might help manage these kinds of projects - by smoothing > the workflow - tracking what needs translation, perhaps sending stuff to the > translator automatically, reporting on what's been done by who and comparing > the two language versions to make sure they are parallel. And perhaps even > sharing a common architecture - so that you didn't need two sets of DTML > methods etc. > > I'm wondering if this fits into other generic Zope workflow products that > people have talked about developing or if it would have to be built from > scratch. > > Anyone have thoughts on this subject? Yes. Look at our bilingual site at http://www.petr.com In the url: http://z.petr.com/buro/p/index_html?language=en the parameter 'language' is available in the whole object tree. Only text modules need to know how to react on this parameter. Pages, images, navigation, templates etc. are not aware of the language (though they may if needed, e.g. changing the layout) So there in only one tree of pages, one set of navigation. The text modules have syntax like: <dtml-if "getform('language') == 'nl'">De kracht van het werken met klein team... <dtml-else>The strength of working with a small team... </dtml-if> Pages only contain references to text modules and the name of a template to be used. Kind regards, Petr van Blokland buro(a)petr.com

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