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ZTables?
by julio dinis 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hi all! Are ZTables a free product? Still exists or it has just ceased to be? It is no more? Thanks, Julio ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Mac2ISO conversion?
by Oliver Wrede 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

I need to enter text data into a MySQL database via HTML forms. Text entered on a Macintosh client is not ISO-Latin as it seems. When getting that text out of the database, the special characters are broken in the HTML page but not in the textarea. Text entered via a Windows browser are not broken in the Mac browsers HTML page - but in the textarea. So I guess I should care for getting ISO-Latin text from the Mac clients into the database! >From other areas I know this requires a mac-to-iso translation (in both directions (because the text must be editable on Macs). But how can I do this in Zope? I know how to figure out, if it's a Mac-Client -- do I have to create an External method fr this? Oliver .. Oliver Wrede .. owrede(a)khm.de .. Academy of Media Arts, Cologne .. Peter-Welter-Platz 2 . 50676 Koeln, Germany .. http://www.khm.de .. ICQ# 6580315 .. PGP 6.0 Fingerprint: .. 922C FFA2 9A07 5B8E CB2A 10A2 C370 6A62 2232 196C

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RE: [Zope] Abstract rendering made difficult?
by Brian Lloyd 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

> >> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('foo', 'index_html')"> > >> <dtml-var foo> > > > <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('foo',index_html)"> > > <dtml-var foo> > > > > looks like it works > > In my case, 'foo' must be a string, and is actually passed in via > a POST (I need it to maintain state in a "wizard" style form). I'm coming in late on this thread, so ignore me if this has already been covered... :) It sounds like what you want is something like the following: # docname is the variable passed in via the POST whose # value is the name of the document to render. We use # _.getattr(this(), docname) to retrieve the needed # document from the current object. Note that we use # the "let" tag instead of REQUEST.set, which is # increasingly considered evil :) <dtml-let theDoc="_.getattr(this(), docname)"> <dtml-var theDoc> </dtml-let> Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Colour in Structured Text?
by Chris Withers 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Can you do colour in structured text? The reason I ask is that I've just found out how great ZWiki Webs are but I'm wondering if there's a shorter way of changing text colour than: <FONT COLOR="#xxxxxx"> </FONT> I'm looking to use a Wiki so a group of people can edit a web of documents and I was hoping that each person could use a different colour. Having to do the colour by hand defeats the simplicity of a Wiki :( Any ideas? Chris

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Problem with SQL+Special chars...
by Oliver Wrede 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

I am having a problem with HTML entities. I am using Zope to enter and output text into a MySQL Database. When I output the text, it is rendered through my own External Method: <dtml-var "myMthod(myText)"> I tired to write a little subrouting which is supposed to translate special chars in the database into HTML during output. Unfortuneatly the texts are entered on both MacOS and Windows browsers. This unfortunatly makes it difficult: There is no unique ASCII code in the database -- in other words: the same special char may be represented in the database with to character values. First I looked if the <dtml-sqlvar ...> had anything to offer, but that does not seem to be the case. How can I store text in ISO-Latin into the database regardless the Text is entered via a Mac-Browser or a Windows-Browser? Oliver .. Oliver Wrede .. owrede(a)khm.de .. Academy of Media Arts, Cologne .. Peter-Welter-Platz 2 . 50676 Koeln, Germany .. http://www.khm.de .. ICQ# 6580315 .. PGP 6.0 Fingerprint: .. 922C FFA2 9A07 5B8E CB2A 10A2 C370 6A62 2232 196C

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ZRDB
by Tino Wildenhain 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hi, browsing thru Shared.DC.ZRDB.Results i found this construct: -------- line 117 ------------ if not name: raise ValueError, 'Empty column name, %s' % name ------------------------------ This looks a bit silly, because if name is empty, %s will be replaced with nothing... Furthermore, would it not be better to provide a generic name for the empty column? Sure, it is difficult to provide such a name who does not collide with others in namespace, but it would be very helpful, if the underlying database-adaptor does not provide full names under certain circumstances, such as ODBC with CenturaSQLBase always returns empty column names to Zope with the count() Operator. Even if used "as" to rename. How about something like: if not name: name='column%d' % i or such? Next there is always some hassle with those 'table.column' columns returning from databases who do not support column renaming. Would it be a way to rename them automatically to something like table_column? Yes, I know there could be a column already beeing called so. But if one knows she can use table.table_column in such circumstances. May be as alias? Regards Tino Wildenhain

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[Off topic] Zope Job in France
by Olivier Deckmyn 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Jeune Start-up en création dans le monde de l'internet recherche développeurs/chefs de projet Internet / Zope. Diplômé BAC+2/5 (ingénieur ou universitaire), vous avez une première expérience (éventuellement un stage significatif) en développement d'applications dédiées à Internet. Connaissant bien HTML et HTTP, vous maîtrisez parfaitement au moins un langage de programmation objet (Python, Delphi, Java, C++, ...). Une connaissance de Zope (http://www.zope.org) serait un GROS plus. Vous avez une connaissance de UML et de l'objet en général. De plus, vous avez une bonne connaissance des SGBDR et êtes capable de lire et rédiger des documents en anglais. Votre mission : Vous participez à la conception, au développement et à la gestion du site. Selon votre potentiel, vous évoluerez au sein de la société vers de plus amples responsabilités notamment en prenant une part de plus en plus importante dans le déroulement des projets. Expérience : N'hésitez pas à joindre à votre candidature tout document pouvant démontrer vos compétences (ex : URLs de vos réalisations) Profil : Vous êtes rigoureux et organisé, dynamique et passionné et prêt à travailler dans une équipe jeune et très ambitieuse. Ce poste, basé à Paris-La Défense, est à pourvoir immédiatement dans le cadre d'un CDI. Rémunération proposée : 240KF à 290KF selon profil et expérience. Contact : Merci d'adresser CV et une lettre de motivation à : olivier.deckmyn(a)experts-md.com Olivier Deckmyn, CTO eXperts-MD.com

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Abstract rendering made difficult?
by Daryl Tester 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Salutations, I've been staring at this one for a while, but I can't quite seem to pull it off. I'd like to render a document based on the contents of a variable. For example (simplified): <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('foo', 'index_html')"> <dtml-var foo> should (would? could? I'd like!) render index_html. Double quotes don't cut it (both print the string 'index_html') :-( Regards, Daryl Tester

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pil + poll
by Simon Dueckert +49 170 2118890 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hi, I installed poll product without installing PIL before. I created a poll an decided that I also want piecharts. I installed PIL and it works in python (I tried >>>>import Image). When I look at my poll I can see no piecharts. What is the problem? Best Regards Simon

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results from a ZSQL method
by Allen Wallis 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hi, Thanks again for the help with the let and with tags... I am making slow progress, but now can't seem to display my results from a ZSQL method. How are the results returned? If they are in some RESPONSE object, how would I read the items out? So far, I have an SQL query which I'm fairly sure is working, and whcih when tested gives the results I expect, but when I use it in the following bit of DTML, nothing is rendered at all: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('cmatch', 'sup_name')"> <dtml-var searchMySQL> The <dtml-var searchMySQL> line returns nothing, even though I know that there are results for that method. Apologies if I'm missing something I should be picking up from searching the archives, but at the moment our connection is bogged down with lunch time traffic, so I can't even get to the zope site. thanks Allen

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