[Zope] How to do a tabbed navigation interface with ZPT

[Alec Munro]

Thanks for the advice, though I went with something a little different.
My main problem was there were quite a few possible states for images.
So what I did was assign the src attribute to be equal to the result of
a bunch of test() functions strung together(like test(condition,
test(condition, result,. I could have moved (and may still move), the
code into a python file and use real if, elif, and else. But it does
seem to work fairly well as it is.

Alec Munro


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Renfro [mailto:mwr@cae.tntech.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Renfro
Sent: September 6, 2002 4:17 PM
To: Alec Munro
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] How to do a tabbed navigation interface with ZPT


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:39:34PM -0300, Alec Munro wrote:

> I've been trying to figure out the best way to do this for a while 
> now, but so far nothing has jumped out at me as being simple and 
> effective.  Basically, we want a tabbed navigation interface, so that 
> whichever tab the click on, the resultant page has that tab selected.

> I'm wondering what everyone has in the way of solutions for this. I'm 
> sure there are many people doing this, and I would like to hear about 
> different solutions.

Here I go again, shamelessly promoting my meager collection of howtos
anywhere they might be remotely applicable. (An intro like that sounds
straight out of slashdot's typical "I know I'll get modded down for
this, but..." intros.)

The ZPT code at http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr/python_zpt_sitemap_zen
shows how I handled different highlighting for the current location in
the sitemap. It's probably horribly convoluted or non-idiomatic ZPT, and
I should be ashamed for posting it, (insert more traffic-driving reverse
psychology -- look at the code, code wants to be seen) but it might help
out.

Perhaps the whole purpose of my howtos are to serve as an warning for
others.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931
372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu