January 2000 - Zope - Zope lists

Re: [Zope] Any news from ZOPE track?
by Anthony Baxter 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

>>> "Jens Vagelpohl" wrote > today i tested it against several imap servers and found the "can connect > but then sits there and doesn't do anything" with the standard WU-imap (the > one that comes with redhat) and M$ exchange. one product that worked fine > with it was CommuniGate, which is a commercial imap with a couple add-on > functions. It works against our UWash IMAP server, but we've hacked on it a bit. You probably want to turn on imaplib debugging to figure out what's going on. > i tried to configure/install cyrus but after banging my head on the desk > because of the catastrophic way that thing has to be put together i gave up > on it. what a nightmare program. > so, anthony, what imaps did you try..? :) nah, didn't use imaps://, just imap:// Or is that not what you meant?

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RE: IPC8: My thoughts ... in StructuredText
by LEE, Kwan Soo 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

> - Anybody on this list who is over 30 and has never heard of Alice should > be sad. Being over 30, I want to know what the Alice is, really. Just being curiously, LEE, Kwan Soo

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Re: ZCatalog and underscore
by LEE, Kwan Soo 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

Hi, Collector is at http://www.zope.org:8080/Collector. BTW, I'd like to ask you a favor. Could you experiment with Voodoo Kludge Splitter.py at http://www.zope.org/Members/kslee/VoodooKludgeSplitter? I guess it might solve your problem with underscore, though it will introduce some others. It is very customizable, at least. If you use Chinese, could you tell me how to tell between a character and a word in Chinese? LEE, Kwan Soo.

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Re: [Zope] Any news from ZOPE track?
by Anthony Baxter 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

>>> Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote > The INSTALL says the files have to be mode 777. If you have > a zope user that you run Zope as, I recommed that you chown > all the files to that user and chmod them 600. > > Logins and Passwords are kept in plaintext in this file. *nod* I'm hacking it to work with SQLSessions at the moment. > Hrm I can get it to connect to my IMAP server, but, python just > spins at 100% CPU... any ideas? What sort of IMAP server you got? Can you use Python's imaplib to connect to it normally? > Todo and notes and calendar and stuff seem to be ok... and > in English :-) I've got a bunch of people here nagging me to install it for their own use. I think that this is something of a killer app :)

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Implementation Alternatives Question
by James W. Howe 28 Jan '00

28 Jan '00

I'm working on a site to display news articles. There are a handful of different "sections" to the site, each with it's own look. For the most part they look the same but there are subtle differences. A title or graphic might change, some subnavigation might be different, etc. As currently implemented, I've just defined Folders which contain a set of DTMLMethods which define the layout. After doing two or three I see that the content of these folders is almost identical. I realize that I could factor out the common stuff and move it to the root folder, but I'm not thrilled with cluttering my root with stuff which is only applicable to a subset of lower elements. What I'm currently experimenting with is defining a ZClass for a "Content Viewer" folderish object. The ZClass would contain definitions for the common methods. The variability between looks can mostly be accomplished by using different property value settings for each individual ZClass instance. My current quandary is what to do when a property change isn't sufficient. If I were doing this in Smalltalk or Java, I would simply subclass my folder viewer and override any methods that I needed. I know that I can do something similar with ZClasses but I'm wondering if that is a good approach for Zope. Given what I want to do, I see three basic alternatives: 1. Move common functionality up to the root folder. 2. Define a ZClass and subclass with other ZClasses as necessary to get a combination of variability while obeying the "once and only once" rule of good OO programming. 3. Do the subclassing via Python and create a flat ZClass structure within Zope. Are there any other options? What are the pros and cons of each option? Any input would be helpful. Thanks. James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103

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Re: [Zope] versions how
by Hung Jung Lu 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

robin becker <robi-(a)jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/?start=21895 >I'm trying various new (to me things with Zope). I cannot seem to get >versions to work at all. Am I just an idiot? :) Hopefully not. I just started to use versions. They are simple and great. You just add a "version object" into your folder, then click on it. This brings up a screen, where you click on the "StartWorking in ..." button. Voila. Everything you do afterwards is "versioned." Two important things, though: (1) If you want to save or discard the changes, go to the control panel and click on "Version Management", then make your choice. (2) Version works because Zope stores a cookie in your browser session. I am not sure, but I think the version information often is stored in either "tree-s" or "__cp" or "Zope-Version". You can view this more easily by appending "/REQUEST" to the browser http address. For instance: http://www.mysite.com:8080/myFolder/myHtml/REQUEST If you don't see any of these cookies, you are most likely viewing the rendering of your old version. Now the problem is: if you have multiple browser sessions open on your screen, how can you use all of these browser sessions simultaneously work on or view the same new version? There are two ways of doing this: (1) If you are using Internet Explorer IE5, use the File:New:Window pulldown menu to get a new window will allow you to access the same version. Or you can hold the shift key while clicking on the "view" tab of some of your Zope objects inside the management screen. For Netscape, use the "File:New:Navigator Window" pull-down menu. (2) Or if your window is already open as another session and not acessing the version cookie, then you will have to manually go into the zope management screen, and then turn on the "StartWorking in..." button all over again. Anyway, keep in mind that different browser windows might be accessing different cookies and therefore different versions. Each browser session may have its own personality. :) So, whenever you are not sure, either type in the "REQUEST" variable to find out which version you are working on, or go into the management screen from the very browser window of your interest and explicitly turn on or turn off your "version". Hope this helps. Hung Jung ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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tricky form handling
by Thomas Duterme 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

BRAIN TEASER! I've got a brain teaser for the list. here's my form: <form> <table border=1> <dtml-in "objectValues(['Reason2'])" reverse size=10> <dtml-if "publish=='on'"> <tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="good:list" value="<dtml-var id>"> <td><dtml-var reason> <td><dtml-var count> <td><dtml-var publish> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> </form> Now the goal is to increment the count on objects which are checked in the previous form (ie are part of 'good'). Here's what I came up with but it doesn't quite work. It increments the count property on all the objects listed. <dtml-in "objectValues(['Reason2'])" reverse size=3> <dtml-if "publish=='on'"> <dtml-if "REQUEST.has_key('good')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('thelist', good)"> <dtml-in thelist> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('count', _.int(_[_['sequence-item']].count)+1)"> <dtml-call "propertysheets.properties.manage_changeProperties(REQUEST)"> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> </dtml-if> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> First one who can provide the answer (thus correcting my mistakes and illuminating the list) gets 5 Zope stars! TIA, Tom ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: [Zope] Fitting Zope into publishing process
by J C Lawrence 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:06:36 +0100 Ragnar Beer <rbeer(a)uni-goettingen.de> wrote: > I haven't yet looked at GPL link checkers for Linux so it would be > nice to hear some experiences. While I haven't used it for a while, I've been quite pleased with the Python based Linbot which does link checking, site mapping, and number of other useful things. I've also noticed a number of link checkers on freshmeat lately. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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MySQL Question...
by Robert Geiger 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

Is there a How-To or something for setting up a Installing needed products, setting up a connection and using MySQL in Zope?

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Rendering children DTML Documents
by Nicholas Piper 27 Jan '00

27 Jan '00

How might I do something such as this ; <h3>Articles</h3> <dtml-in "objectValues('Ranger_News')"> <dtml-var title> ## override standard_html_header, footer, etc. ## process the document as if it were included just here. </dtml-in> I an use __str__ to get the text-view of the document, but I want it actually processing as DTML. Thank you for any assistance, Nicholas. -- <pcomm(a)inorbit.com> <http://www.innotts.co.uk/~nicholas/> 2048/BEC44395 1999/08/02 Nicholas C. Piper <nicholas(a)innotts.co.uk> If you want to change the automatic PGP actions of my mailer, see; http://www.innotts.co.uk/~nicholas/Personal/personal.php3?page=pgp

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