[Zope] Extending Image via ZClass

[James W. Howe]

At 11:33 AM 1/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James W. Howe [mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
> > What I don't  know how to do, however, is modify the way the object 
> renders
> > itself by  default.  For example, if I use the following:
> >
> > <dtml-var CaptionedImageObjectInstance>
> >
> > I get an img tag for the image associated with my object.
> > What I want to  be able to do is generate my own tags so as to include 
> caption and
> > attribution information in a standard format.  How can I do this?
>
>Overload the __str__ method.  Unless there is some other product or
>ZClass someone has made that allready does this, you will need to create
>a Python base class and override __str__ there.

After poking around, it would appear that the Renderable product does just 
what you describe.

James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103