[Zope] How to use image file without image objects

[Kevin Dangoor]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Anderson" <bill@libc.org>
To: "Timothy Wilson" <wilson@visi.com>
Cc: "Sudhir Kumar" <sudhirlabh@earthlink.net>; <Zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] How to use image file without image objects


> Timothy Wilson wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Sudhir Kumar wrote:
> >
> > > How do I refer to image file in dtml documents without creating
> > > image objects.
> >
> > Using a standard <img src="/Images/foo.jpg"> works in Zope pages. The
> > advantage of using image objects is that you can "acquire" those images
in
> > subpages and the <dtml-var foo.jpg> takes care of height and width tags
>                              ^^^^^^^
>
> Will likely return a key error.
>
> IIRC, you should enclose it in quotes? (This is why I don't use dots
> in my imagenames...too much hassle, IMO)

Nope... That line is equivalent to <dtml-var name="foo.jpg">, and "." is
perfectly legal in that context. If you put it in quotes, *then* you'll have
trouble, because it would be <dtml-var expr="foo.jpg">. Python would be
looking for the "jpg" attribute of "foo".

Kevin