Where are all the good docs?
I've recently persuaded my company and our clients that Zope is THE way to go for Portal software. Now I find myself having to hack away at sources more and more to meed their needs. With that in mind, how can I find out something like what functions can be called from the context object? I've noticed context.absolute_url() and a few others but I find myself sorely lacking the ability to look up member methods for Zope objects. Where do I go for info? -- Regards, Bryan Simmons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What is this "sleep" of which you speak? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:53:20PM -0400, Bryan Simmons wrote:
I've recently persuaded my company and our clients that Zope is THE way to go for Portal software. Now I find myself having to hack away at sources more and more to meed their needs. With that in mind, how can I find out something like what functions can be called from the context object? I've noticed context.absolute_url() and a few others but I find myself sorely lacking the ability to look up member methods for Zope objects.
Where do I go for info?
Install DocFinder, it's great. For more info than that, use the source. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:44:46PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:53:20PM -0400, Bryan Simmons wrote:
I've recently persuaded my company and our clients that Zope is THE way to go for Portal software. Now I find myself having to hack away at sources more and more to meed their needs. With that in mind, how can I find out something like what functions can be called from the context object? I've noticed context.absolute_url() and a few others but I find myself sorely lacking the ability to look up member methods for Zope objects.
Where do I go for info?
Install DocFinder, it's great.
err, i meant to say DocFinderEverywhere. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
That product sure does open up a wealth of information but it really does me no good with understanding what context is and what functions apply to it.... On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:45:28 -0400, Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:44:46PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:53:20PM -0400, Bryan Simmons wrote:
I've recently persuaded my company and our clients that Zope is THE way to go for Portal software. Now I find myself having to hack away at sources more and more to meed their needs. With that in mind, how can I find out something like what functions can be called from the context object? I've noticed context.absolute_url() and a few others but I find myself sorely lacking the ability to look up member methods for Zope objects.
Where do I go for info?
Install DocFinder, it's great.
err, i meant to say DocFinderEverywhere.
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:37:01PM -0400, Bryan Simmons wrote:
That product sure does open up a wealth of information but it really does me no good with understanding what context is and what functions apply to it....
"context" is a generic name for the current, er, context. e.g. if i visit http://www.some-zope-site.org/foo/bar/baz, you could say i am calling baz in the context of bar. so what methods bar has depends on what kind of object bar is. That's where docfinder comes in... you visit bar in the ZMI and see what it says. you should also read the zope book... currently in progress version here: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
This page is EXACTLY what I was looking for: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/ScriptingZope.stx#2-5 Thanks!! On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:24:11 -0400, Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 07:37:01PM -0400, Bryan Simmons wrote:
That product sure does open up a wealth of information but it really does me no good with understanding what context is and what functions apply to it....
"context" is a generic name for the current, er, context. e.g. if i visit http://www.some-zope-site.org/foo/bar/baz, you could say i am calling baz in the context of bar. so what methods bar has depends on what kind of object bar is. That's where docfinder comes in... you visit bar in the ZMI and see what it says.
you should also read the zope book... currently in progress version here: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition
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-- Regards, Bryan Simmons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What is this "sleep" of which you speak? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Also have a look at: http://zopewiki.org/ZopeWiki http://zope.org/Members/ZQR/normal (aging but still useful) -- Jean Jordaan http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za
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