[Zope] ZClass inheriting from image question

Kapil Thangavelu kthangavelu@earthlink.net
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:36:50 -0700


Meeting Maker Webmaster wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> At 16:31 10.08.2000 +0000, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
> > > I am still working on my "users preferences" I mentioned earlier. For now
> >I
> > > will stay with the standard acl_users as they seem to offer everything I
> > > currently need to authenticate the user. On the other side, I am creating
> >a
> > > new ZClass that will be used to store the user information in properties.
> > > As I finally also want to store the picture of the user, I decided to
> > > create ZClass that will subclass _ZClass_for_Image.
> > >
> > > I want to change the default way the ZClass renders it's information. I
> > > want more than simply a picture so I crated a new method "index_html" in
> >my
> > > ZClass.
> > >
> > > My question is: How do I display the picture from this index_html method?
> >
> >from the Image.py file
> >
> ><dtml-var tag> should do it
> 
> This doesn't work. The problem is that <dtml-var tag> returns the <IMG ...>
> tag using the object name. Well if it does that, it will use the content of
> index_html, resulting in an error.
> 

2nd try 

make a dtml doc id:return_image
with body
<dtml-var data>

and use that as your source
so in index_html

<img src="<dtml-var "return_image.absolute_url()">">

Cheers

Kapil