[Zope] FS based product and image replacement

[David Pratt]

Well I think for plain zope there is a skinned folder (or similar 
named) implementation to apply the same approach except no CMF 
overhead.  I think you could find it on zope.org or google around for 
it.

Regards,
David


On Friday, August 12, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Nicholas Wieland wrote:

> Sorry, but I don't and can't use CMF :)
> It's plain Zope.
>  
> I'm not interested in "skins", this is an internal app, so I just have 
> to provide a usable UI.
> Thanks for trying.
>  
>   ngw 
>
> David Pratt <fairwinds at eastlink.ca> ha scritto:
>
> Hi Nicholas. You want to put your images, templates, script pythons etc
> that you want to be available in a skin folder for your product. Then
> you make skin folder a DirectoryView as part of your product
> development and install so that the DirectoryView is installed with
> portal skins. Once you have a successful install, you can verify that
> your skin folder in the appropriate skin paths you want by using the
> Properties tab in portal skins tool. Your images, templates and scripts
> - whatever you have included in the skin are now available globally to
> your application. All you have to do is reference the image or object
> by its id to get a handle on it. As far as images, when you use an
> image in a zpt, you can look at the source and the full url is made.
>
> Here is a link to a product that illustrates how to do this for
> ExampleFileSystemSkin product :
> http://sourceforge.net/project/
> showfiles.php?group_id=55262&package_id=99640
>
> With stylesheets, this is dtml. You can look at the zpt stylesheets in
> CMF in its skin folder to get the idea of how to use the portal_url or
> properties from a properties sheet to create your css. Generally, you
> would use portal_url in conjunction with the image to give you the full
> image path the css that is rendered.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
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