[Zope] Re: Ask for collaboration

Andreas Jung lists at zopyx.com
Thu Jan 3 11:00:21 EST 2008



--On 3. Januar 2008 07:22:08 -0500 Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> 
wrote:

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> Garito wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I plan to create a product I call Zope Smart Manager that consist in a
>> view similar to freemind for Zope
>> You could see a picture of my prototype here:
>> http://blogs.sistes.net/Garito/images/ArbolYanged.png
>
> While I can see visual differences, how does this tree behave
> differently than the one which the ZMI shows?

This is just a tree rotated counter-clockwise.

>
>> The idea is create a series of monkey patches to all the products we are
>> interested to see as tree nodes and a series of javascript (prototype +
>> scriptaculous) for the "client side"
>>
>> I plan this ZSM view will be my main work view with edition and creation
>>
>> For that I need some help about how to create the simplest monkey patch
>> and the javascript objects
>
> I don't know why you think you need to moneky-patch anything:  you
> should be able to create such a view using the standard API supplied by
> pretty much every existing Zope object.  The ZMI tree code is here:
>
>   $ZOPE_HOME/lib/python/TreeDisplay/TreeTag.py

The only issue I see here is the problem to render the graph from left to 
right instead from top to bottom. There are several graph-drawing tools
available (best to start with Graphviz) that generate images or 
HTML/Imagemaps.

-aj
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