[Zope-CMF] CMF Tool gotchas

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> The sources of "Products.CMFCore.utils.ToolInit.initialize"
> and "App.ProductContext.ProductContext.initializeClass"
> explain why it does not work:
> 
>    "ToolInit.initialize" calls "ProductContext.initializeClass".
>    This latter creates the icon. But, it does not use the
>    provided "product_name" (if does not know it). Instead,
>    it uses its own product name.

Thanks for the tip. That led me to a workaround: don't put
the icon in a subdirectory. Put it in the package root
and refer to it as "tool.gif" instead of "www/tool.gif".

> Remember "ToolInit"s "product_name" must be the name of the
> product for which "initialize" is called.

Yes, that is what I had already.

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