[Zope] object icons

[Loren Stafford]

As usual, I blabbered on before I knew what I was talking about.

I played some more with this (because I have the same problem in my product)
and found that the "Product Icons" section at
http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/ProductAPITutorial does indeed work as
documented:



                      Here's our poll's misc_ definition:

                             misc_={
                                 'poll': ImageFile('poll.gif',globals()),
                             }


                      It only defines one thing--the poll's icon. For your
Product's icons you should use 'ImageFile's.

                      Objects defined in a Product's misc_ mapping are made
available through the web at /misc_//.

                      To allow Zope to find this icon you need to specify
its URL in your Product's class. So here's how we indicate our poll's
                      icon:

                             class Poll:
                                 ...
                                 icon='misc_/Poll/poll'
                                 ...

You just have to realize that icon="misc_/<ProductID>/<misc_key>".

-- HTH
-- Loren

From: Loren Stafford <lstaffor@dynalogic.com>


> Oops. What I said below doesn't even work in my installation. I guess I
> can't help much.
>
> I also tried the stuff in the "Product Icons" section at
> http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/ProductAPITutorial and it doesn't
> quite work as documented anymore. But the icon= statement in the Class
> definition does seem to take some kind of URL.
>
> -- Loren
>
> From: Loren Stafford <lstaffor@dynalogic.com>
>
>
> > I'm not sure; but I inherited some code that works like this:
> >
> > # Set the icon for the MyClass, because it doesn't act
> > # like a regular object, so I can't use registerClass
> > misc_ = { 'MyClassIcon': ImageFile('www/MyIcon.gif', globals()) }
> >
> > Apparently, in this case, the ID is constructed as <MyClassID>+'Icon';
> > because there is no corresponding icon=... statement anywhere. But, I
> can't
> > find the Zope code that does this; so, I might be deceived.
> >
> > -- HTH
> > -- Loren, also struggling to write a product
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Terry Kerr <terry@adroitnet.com.au>
> > To: <zope@zope.org>
> > Sent: February 22, 2000 04:29 PM
> > Subject: [Zope] object icons
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > How can I assign icons to objects within my product.  I am only
> > > registering one container class in the __init__.py of the product, but
> > > want other objects within the product to have icons even tho they are
> > > only explicitly created and added by the product itself.
> > >
> > > setting an icon='blah.gif' in the class doesn't work.  I am having
> > > trouble working out what setting this attribute is actually doing.
> > >
> > >
>
>