-----Original Message----- From: Itamar S.-T. [mailto:itamars@ibm.net] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:39 PM To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] display a ZClass instance

I create a ZClass, which inherits from ObjectContainer, with a index_html DTML method, and create an instance of the class called test.

http://localhost:9673/test or http://localhost:9673/test/index_html works fine, but if I try doing <!--#var test--> from inside the DTML method http://localhost:9673/test/index_html it writes in the html file (it doesn't show up since Netscape thinks its a tag)

<AnouncementsClass instance at 84f9e10>

instead of what I want it to do - that is, show the output of test/index_html. How then do I display it? Does it need to inherit from anything else?

If I understand your question correctly, try: <!--#var index_html--> Saying <!--#var test--> will just render the repr of the object, which because it's a ZClass is excatly what you get. DTML does a bit of sniffing when you #var objects, and if that object is a DTML object (like the test object's index_html) it will render it correctly. -Michel

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