January 2002 - Zope - Zope lists

Wysiwyg frontend -- how I used the Java applet as a editor in zope
by Heimo Laukkanen 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Try the Java applet from http://www.realobjects.de, which I have found as a killer tool -- if you use it with good network connections. I noticed that in one of our project users who used the net through 56 kbps modems felt it too slow loading. In our project we boughth the intranet licence for 10 users, since the customer website is updated by named users through Zope Management interface. The licence was bought through the web. Licence key came in a couple of hours, when I made the order on a normal working day. I created a ZClass - actually my first Zclass -- product that included all the functionality that I wanted. It wass automaticly indexed in to ZClass and also Renderable, so that it was possible to use product as a index_html in a folder. Now I would propably do it a bit differently, propably create a Python based product that inherits dtml-document and adds some functionality to that. In the product's editing functions dtml-method applet is loaded and to applet is given a http-addres, which is actually url to the products method called getBody. The getBody returns the content of the product without headers and footers etc. When user has done all the needed editing, he or she saves the edit by pressing savre button. Save button launches a small javascript that exports the content in the java applet to a hidden field in the edit-form -- and then sends the form to a method, that saves the changes to the Products properties. Works well. If you have any questions, just send email and I see if I can help you. -huima

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exUserFolder
by Steve Drees 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Does exUserFolder require python2.x or not? The download page seems to indicate it doesn't

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WYSIWYG browser front end?
by R^3 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Forgive me if I missed something. I am evaluating Zope as a possible CMS for a large University with a mix of very non-technical users through experienced technical uers. Our goal is to find something we can offer the non-technical people which _can_ eliminate all the different tools these people try to use which we are then forced to support (ftp, Dreamweaver, HTML-Kit, HomeSite, Frontpage, MS Word, Netscape Composer etc..) I do like the fact that Zope supports use of these tools. However, I was hoping there was add on or extension which offered more of a WYSIWYG interface through the browser for the non-technical people which only presented them with a page's content. For example something that ensures they use a template. It would need to be simple as point and click. I.e. Point to the "nav bar" section of a web page to allow editing of that section of the page. Zope seems to meet most of our goals. So far I'm very impressed. Does anybody have more information as to whether Zope can provide this functionality? BTW: I've seen this functionality in Egrail but the cost can't be justified ($125,000 + 15% maintenance fee)... Regards, -Ryan

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where to put .lib file
by Lucas Vogel 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Hi, I have compiled the MySql product on a win32 platform, which makes a .lib file called _mysql.lib . Where do I put this file in order for zope to see it? The product won't work because it doesn't see it and I can't seem to find a place to put it anywhere. Thanks, Lucas Vogel _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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relative path to objects in <dtml-var>
by Roy Mathew 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Folks, I am trying to use acquisition to include images in my webpages. My intent is to have a central directory of Images, and several other hierararchies of Zope objects that use those images. For example, witness the following structure: Images/gifs/x.gif Images/pngs/x.png Content/A/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var x.gif>) Content/B/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var x.png>) My understanding of using pathnames in acquisition, is that one needs to insert the minimum relative path to the images from a reachable parent folder, that one can get away with, somewhere in the referring URL. Now, if I use the URL http://localhost/Content/Images/gifs/A/page1_dtml OR http://localhost/Content/Images/pngs/B/page1_dtml thing work fine. What I would really like to do is be able to specify the paths to the images inside of the dtml file itself, something like: Content/A/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var Images/gifs/x.gif>) Content/B/page1_dtml (contains: <dtml-var Images/pngs/x.png>) so that my URLS can be simpler, like: http://localhost/Content/A/page1_dtml http://localhost/Content/B/page1_dtml and still find the gifs. But this fails in ZOPE; can someone show me the light please! Thanks, Roy Mathew. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com

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