[Zope] Using Dreamweaver with zope..

[Theodore Patrick]

> Actually, Dreamweaver is much better than you think!

Not at all, I love it ;-)

 
> At the UCON conference it was released that Dreamweaver is built on a
> version of ECMASCRIPT(Javascript) and .XML, The entire app(minus some core
> code) is all javascript and is easily manipulated. The kit you found is a
> tool for building functionality into Dreamweaver. It is really powerful.
> 
> As Dreamweaver has FTP access there is no reason that Dreamweaver 
> cannot be a full blown IDE for Zope. There are 3 things that would need to
happen:

I was hoping for the dreamweaver.openDocument() method for interacting
with Zope. In that way you could get more control by using the
manage_-methods
and do more intelligent things than just updating files.

I am unsure what this does?

I have not confirmed if the dreamweaver.openDocument() just takes
(file:) URLs or if it takes (http:) URLs as well?

In that case it would be worth considering building a C-library handling
HTTP communication inside DW. (If its not already done?)

I know that the FTP protocol works well. I see what you all are talking
about! The FTP support only lets you open files when they have an extension.
Although if you include a .htm on them in ZOPE they open just fine. They
also save back into ZOPE fine with the extensions. 

> 	1. DTML Tags would have to be added to ZOPE under a ZOPE MENU
> 	2. Modify the MIME SETTINGS so Dreamweaver could recognize ZOPE Docs
(or rename them in ZOPE)

Have you found were to do this?

NO, Only that if you have an extension in the file name in ZOPE, they open
just fine. I was wondering if you could have a feature that ties the two
together so that ZOPE(FTP) would automatically do it for unnamed files and
then take the extension off.(It is an OPEN SOURCE PRODUCT!) This would be a
modification to ZSERVER(FTP). Maybe if ZOPE managed the EXTENSIONS based on
MIME, That would do it!


> 	3. Add ZOPE Logic to the menus. (IF, WHILE, IN)

I don't quite follow? Could you explain it for me?

You can add menus and items into DREAMWEAVER. Lets have a ZOPE MENU with
ZOPE items. (CUT, PASTE & MANAGE DTML SYNTAX via DREAMWEAVER(all they are is
XML/HTML tags). We would just add reference DTML tags so that you could cut
and paste DTML. The Logic is there so that you can insert an IF STATEMENT of
a WHILE LOOP....similar to inserting an image and editing the parameters. 

Actually I was trying to understand the change to <dtml-var> based tags and
it happens to make the tags work 200% better in DREAMWEAVER. It now doesn't
cut off the <--#'s. So that editing forms is easier.

If you look in the Dreamweaver Folder there are sets of components .js and
.xml files all of them make up the interface to Dreamweaver. So you can edit
them and add ZOPE functionality. Although I RECOMMEND CREATING A BACK-UP
BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!!! I have already had to re-install it because of some
editing.

It really would not be too much effort to bridge the gap in the two
products. Dreamweaver was designed to change so that their life-cycle would
be extended and the software could adapt over time.

I will look into the OPENDOC() function and see what I can find. I know
someone at Macromedia I can email. He will point me in the right direction.
 
> Oracle built a dreamweaver extension to view and edit parameters in an
> oracle database. With the Dreamweaver SDK there really isn't anything you
> can't do. 

Almost ;-)

AS WITH ALL THINGS, IN THEORY! ;)TED

/Johan