[Zope] Need help trying to add objects to a Object Manager ZC lass

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart 'Zen' Bishop [mailto:zen@cs.rmit.edu.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 21:09
> To: Jay, Dylan
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Need help trying to add objects to a 
> Object Manager
> ZC lass
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jay, Dylan wrote:
> 
> > > You need to inherit from Folder as well.
> > > This one bit me last week. :-|
> > 
> > This doesn't work. Can anyone tell me why this might be 
> happening????? I'm
> > really starting to think ZClasses are just a complete waste of time.
> 
> I think what is happening is the following:
>     Some objects think of themselves as 'methods'. If you ask them for
>     this(), they will report their container object.
> 
>     Other objects, like folder, report themselves when asked 
> for this().
> 
>     If you are inheriting from multiple baseclasses, the order will be
>     significant. Try making folder the first object in the list
>     you inherit from.  If this doesn't work, try making it the last
>     (I don't know if the top of the list or the bottom will 
> take precedance).

I have yet to try this however isn't there a conflict here between
ZCatalogAware. I thought that ZCatalogAware had to be the first to be
inherited?