[Zope-CMF] image attribute

[Glenn Pierce]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:22, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Glenn Pierce wrote at 2003-7-8 15:32 +0100:
>  > Basically I have a product that is based on CMFDefault.NewsItem and I am
>  > trying to store an OFS.Image that will be uploaded from a form into an
>  > attribute of this product.
>  > 
>  > Could some one please show me a simple example of a method to store the
>  > uploaded image ?
> 
> As far as I know, "CMFDefault.NewsItem" is not prepared to
> get an image attribute.
> 
> You are right when you assume that this does not mean you cannot do it,
> but it would be clearer to make your own content type derived
> from "NewsItem".
> 
> I would use a ZClass for this, derived from "ObjectManager"
> with a "NewsItem" and "Images" as content.
> You may find some details in the "Web site construction kid" (or similar)
> book. The essential chapter 5 is on "cmf.zope.org".
> 
> There are people that are very suspicious wrt ZClasses and
> prefer Python based content classes.
> 
> 

I have taken the default content types and moved them into my own
product. 

I did this as I do not want to depend on CMFDefault. I wanted to remain
in python for the distributing advantages and to get more experience in
that area. Not that I have anything against zclasses :)

I have begun extending this NewsItem to provide a picture with some
text, at this stage it is proof of concept. 

If successful I was going to create a CompositeDocument Type which I
could inherit from.

Basically I am trying to implement the third suggestion in the following
mail

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2002-March/011799.html


Thanks for the help.