-----Original Message----- From: Craig B. Allen [mailto:cba@mediaone.net] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 11:39 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope site's sidebar

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One is the sidebar on the zope site, it is the menu and News column that runs down the left hand side. What is a sidebar_contents, is it a object type, a folder, or something else?

I'd say it's a method that returns a list, maybe from an internal or external data store. You can look at something here: http://www.zope.org/dtml_source?path=/sidebar_contents&pp=1 but in Zope it's hard for me to be sure whether stuff is real or virtual. Anyway, sidebar_contents seems to do something like I've been trying to implement on my pages: display 'sibling' links but show the current page NOT as a link.

Good guess. It's actually a property of type 'Lines'.

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The second thing that I had a question about was the navbar that runs across the top of each page. Is that a static element stored in the highest folder of the different sections or dynamicly created?

You can look at the code for the navbar using http://www.zope.org/dtml_source?path=/pathlinks&pp=1 which I discovered after following the link you provided to the sidebar code. My python skills are as yet almost nonexistent so the meaning of the code I can only guess at, but I'd say it is generated dynamically.

Well it's dynamicaly generated from a staticly assigned variable, 'menu_bar_items'. :) It does not get anything from anywhere to generate it's code. It's actually a 'hook' for the future so that the navbar can be dynamic, but it was never improved upon. Look in the dictionary under 'cruft'. -Michel