Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Ron yes +thanks for paying keen attention here.. What Manila has done is to provide some reasonable default templates for getting useful site development work done 'out of the box' - they have provided a structure template, and well defined access to changing the obvious things people

[Zope] Input for Chinese Characters

2000-09-11 Thread Kelvin Cheong
Hi all! Now that I have managed to display Chinese characters, i'm stuck with my next problem. How do i input Chinese characters into Zope? Thanx in advance to all of ya! Later, amoebia VCN - The Leader In Corporate Communication Solutions Visit our website at http://www.vcn.com.my. or

Re: [Zope] newbie dtml-if/expr ?

2000-09-11 Thread Tim Cook
Daniel Chudnov wrote: (zope-2.1.6, rh6-linux) How come I can't do this: dtml-if "var1 and var2" dtml-call somefuncNeedingVar1AndVar2 /dtml-if Your problem is probably related to namespaces and aquisition. Aquisition is best monster you'll ever meet. s What you're calling

Re: [Zope] Using Chinese Characters

2000-09-11 Thread Kelvin Cheong
Christian, Thanks for the tip. Your help is much appreciated. Further to your reply, I would like to ask what the differences of UTF-8 are compared to Big5 Code. Apparently (from my research on Big5) it is the most commonly used unicode for chinese characters. Kindly advice. Thank you once

Re: [Zope] locale and Splitter.c on FreeBSD - where is the bug ?

2000-09-11 Thread Aleksander Salwa
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dieter Maurer wrote: Put it into the collector (URL:http://classic.zope.org/Collector). 8080 Anyway, Collector doesn't work :( - "Temporarily Unavailable".

RE: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread Ron Bickers
What Manila has done is to provide some reasonable default templates for getting useful site development work done 'out of the box' - they have provided a structure template, and well defined access to changing the obvious things people want to change. I see. Having higher level drop-in

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread JTC Murphy
Oooh, now there's an interesting thought... One would like to - but there often aren't enough hours in the day. Actually one is frequently lucky to even get the option to try to pick something at all, never mind doing the research - some combination of "we've already got it" or "its "free" (it

[Zope] Squishdot should be :-)

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use at work = I will recommeend using it and do the work of setting it up on an NT (ugh) box and claim it can be relied upon for a medium level (I don't know how much really) of traffic. Yeah, it should be... let me know if it isn't and I'll fix it ;-) cheers,

Re: [Zope] Import Zope Security

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
Martijn Pieters wrote: No it isn't. Web access to class instances is handled by permissions. Unpickling will cause class instantiation in the python process, where you have no control over what get's created. Surely you could pipe this process through the Zope security process? You can

Re: [Zope] Emacs and dtml-mode +/-

2000-09-11 Thread Alastair Burt
"Nestor A. Diaz L." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed the dtml-mode that provided http://www.zope.org/Members/alburt under Debian potato, emacs20 and psgml it work so nice but i have a little question, and i don't know if it is possible to resolve, consider the following html code:

Re: [Zope] ZServer Statistics

2000-09-11 Thread J. Atwood
Is there way to determine how many (and which)pages ZServer serves? I am running ZServer as my primary Have a look into /path_to_your_zope/var/Z2.log And run a log analyzer like Analog (http://www.analog.cx) on it. J ___ Zope maillist -

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread albert boulanger
Exactly. My concern is to get the right kind of discussion going because it is going to need some differnt kinds of minds to work together. This meshes with my thinking recently. I think many in the Zope community are "early-adopters" kind of people -- willing to put up with spending

[Zope] ZClass property sheets and lists of values

2000-09-11 Thread Brian and JoAnn Burton
Is there a way to have 2 property sheets in a ZClass where one property in one sheet uses a property in another sheet to fill out its list? This way, I can manage who can control what is in the list. How do I refer to the property that contains the list? I tried things like

[Zope] Abstract ZClasses and containing classes

2000-09-11 Thread Brian and JoAnn Burton
Scenario: here is a hierarchy of ZClasses. AbsDogPoundOrganization - abstract class ForProfitOrganization - subclass of AbsDogPoundOrganization NonProfitOrganization - subclass of AbsDogPoundOrganization Now I want AbsDogPoundOrganization to contain the class of Location (not an

[Zope] The Zope (ZopeDev) service terminated with service-specific error1. 1.

2000-09-11 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi all For the record, I'm getting this in the NT Event Log: The Zope (ZopeDev) service terminated with service-specific error 1. No Zope. Let's see if I can get it running again .. -- Jean Jordaan --technical writer-- Mosaic Software--Zope 2.1.6 on WinNT and W2K

[Zope] Manager Authentication Failure: How to debug?

2000-09-11 Thread Kimmo Kansanen
Hi all, I just installed the latest Zope available for Debian (2.2.1) on Potato. However, after logging in as superuser and creating the manager account, I cannot log in with that account. The logs produced (that I found) only indicate the ZServer getting the http request, but nothing on the

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Exactly. My concern is to get the right kind of discussion going because it is going to need some differnt kinds of minds to work together. This meshes with my thinking recently. I think many in the Zope community are "early-adopters" kind of people -- willing to put up with

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Size of Data.fs - and crypto.

2000-09-11 Thread Marcin Kasperski
Another thing. Have anyone tried to encrypt all data inside the Data.fs file? I mean, encrypted the data so that not even root can access it, only if you have the right passphrase (or whatever) in the management interface are you allowed access to the data. You got some suggestions to

[Zope] Copy/Paste DTML method raises exception does not support this operation

2000-09-11 Thread Brad Clements
I think my Zodb is messed up, I'm running Zope 2.2.1 (binary release, python 1.5.2, win32-x86) I copied a DTML Method, and tried to paste it into the same folder. I get this exception: The object ReportBanner does not support this operation Traceback (innermost last): File

[Zope] Stranger than Property

2000-09-11 Thread Sven Hohage
Hallo, I've got a very strange error. I'm working with external methods and folder proprties. The methods are iterating over properties and adding or deleting items. Until friday everything was fine.Now I got this error when I try to view the properties. I'm not understanding why there is a

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread J. Atwood
Sorry.. the second link should have been... http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/zope.html J From: J. Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:44:33 -0400 To: Jason Cunliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison Try

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread J. Atwood
Try http://www.camworld.com/cms/ And more at http://www.camworld.com/misc/cms.html Cheers, J From: "Jason Cunliffe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 09:17:43 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison Hello I need to

[Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-11 Thread Stuart Foster
I have a DTML method that is called from a document. I need to pass a value to it like a parameter would be passed to a function. dtml-var some_method(param=value) Thanks ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope] Input for Chinese Characters

2000-09-11 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:03:42 GMT, "Kelvin Cheong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some patches to Zope at http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring that let you use Unicode strings in Zope as easily as 8-bit strings. You will need python 2.0 for its unicode support - this is currently in beta,

[Zope] Oedipus / Zope / python / product / XML ++

2000-09-11 Thread Jørgen Skogstad
Hi there .. I've been looking into something this weekend. I need somehting that can handle my link database etc. and list them through Zope on a regular basis. I was looking at Oedipus which can create "semi-xml" DMOZ like directories which would suffice for v0.1b of my product. I was

[Zope] zope login window: how to change the 'Zope' realm/resource??

2000-09-11 Thread Gilles Lavaux
Hello, Question about Zope 2.2.1: - I have a 'administration' folder which contains administration methods and is restricted to the 'project_admin' role. - The user 'toto' has the role 'project_admin'. When I access this folder, the login window prompt for a 'Zope' resource (IE4, Opera4..).

Re: [Zope] newbie dtml-if/expr ?

2000-09-11 Thread Daniel Chudnov
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Tim Cook wrote: Your problem is probably related to namespaces and aquisition. Aquisition is best monster you'll ever meet. s snip/ FreePM Project Coordinator http://www.freepm.org OSHCA Founding Supporter http://www.oshca.org ...hey thanks for the reading

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-11 Thread Rik Hoekstra
I have a DTML method that is called from a document. I need to pass a value to it like a parameter would be passed to a function. dtml-var some_method(param=value) try something like: dtml-var "method_name(_.None, _, param=value)" or: dtml-var "method_name(_.None, _, arg1=value1,

Re: [Zope] Manager Authentication Failure: How to debug?

2000-09-11 Thread Martijn Pieters
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:44:24PM +0300, Kimmo Kansanen wrote: I just installed the latest Zope available for Debian (2.2.1) on Potato. However, after logging in as superuser and creating the manager account, I cannot log in with that account. The logs produced (that I found) only indicate

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread Bill Anderson
Jason Cunliffe wrote: Completely calm and friendly opinions follow... yes thanks.. I don't think it's any more difficult to create an attractive (graphics-wise) site in Zope than it is with PHP or ASP or plain old Apache-served HTML files. Quite honestly, I'm not qualified to do

Re: [Zope] Looking for Zope vs. Others at-a-glance comparison

2000-09-11 Thread Bill Anderson
Jason Cunliffe wrote: Ron yes +thanks for paying keen attention here.. What Manila has done is to provide some reasonable default templates for getting useful site development work done 'out of the box' - they have provided a structure template, and well defined access to

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-11 Thread Philipp Auersperg
enclose the expression in quotes and you're happy: dtml-var "some_method(param=value)" phil *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11.09.2000 at 09:01 Stuart Foster wrote: I have a DTML method that is called from a document. I need to pass a value to it like a parameter would be passed

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-11 Thread Daniel Rusch
dtml-var "some_method(param='Test')" 'Test' is single quoted if it is a string, if it is a variable then don't quote it. Notice also the double quotes "some_method(param='Test')" Dan Stuart Foster wrote: I have a DTML method that is called from a document. I need to pass a value to it like

[Zope] Uh-oh, my Zope site is going down the toilet! (NameError in DT_Util.py)

2000-09-11 Thread Brad Clements
Earlier I reported a problem with copy/pasting a DTML method. Now I'm getting a NameError exception in DT_Util.py, line 337 (in eval). This appears to be either an acquisition problem, a security problem or a combiniation in conjunction with LoginManager. (the traceback is at the bottom of

Re: [Zope] ZServer Statistics

2000-09-11 Thread rgines
Is there way to determine how many (and which)pages ZServer serves? I am running ZServer as my primary Have a look into /path_to_your_zope/var/Z2.log And run a log analyzer like Analog (http://www.analog.cx) on it. Analog is a great tool and I have used it under other Web Servers. I

Re: [Zope] Best way to handle SQL update with variable number of fields?

2000-09-11 Thread Dieter Maurer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem - I would like to populate the form with the existing values and then allow the user to change the ones they want to. Some of the fields in the database are empty and it will always be that way. The length of the update statement will change. I do

Re: [Zope] ZClasses - Base classes

2000-09-11 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp Auersperg writes: I know that one cannot change the base classes of a ZClass after it has een= created, but my question: How can I just find out / enmerate the base classes of a ZClass? You see mangled names of your base classes in the ZClass' "Basic" Tab. When you look at the

[Zope] test

2000-09-11 Thread Chris McDonough
test, please ignore ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce

Re: [Zope] ZServer Statistics

2000-09-11 Thread J. Atwood
I have Analog running on a bunch of Zope servers (some behind Apache some not) here are the only lines that make a difference. LOGFILE /usr/local/zope/var/Z2.log DIRSUFFIX index_html I know that seems simple but that is all the is custom in my analog.cfg that I took from the examples/big.cfg

[Zope] ZGDChart/GDChart on Linux

2000-09-11 Thread Hung Jung Lu
Hmmm... I don't remember anymore how to build GDChart on Linux. To simplify the situation, let us say that we want to focus on GDChart alone, not ZGDChart. I downloaded from http://athani.pair.com/msteed/software/gdchart/index.html and did the "make -f makepy.linux" thing. But when I

[Zope] manage_afterAdd - need enlightenment

2000-09-11 Thread Aleksander Salwa
I decided to convert my ZClasses to CatalogAware. I added CatalogAware as first base class. If I add dtml-call "index_object()" in my MyZClass_add method, then new object is automatically indexed as expected. But in CatalogAwareness.py I see method manage_afterAdd, which does the same. Is this

Re: [Zope] locale and Splitter.c on FreeBSD - where is the bug ?

2000-09-11 Thread Aleksander Salwa
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Dieter Maurer wrote: Nevertheless, you patch to "splitter" should be welcome as it solves a usability problem on FreeBSD systems. Put it into the collector (URL:http://classic.zope.org/Collector). Done. You may file a problem report to the FreeBSD maintainers in

Re: [Zope] newbie dtml-if/expr ?

2000-09-11 Thread Dieter Maurer
Daniel Chudnov writes: dtml-if "var1 and var2" dtml-call somefuncNeedingVar1AndVar2 /dtml-if dtml-if var is equivalent to dtml-if "_.has_key('var') and var". Thus, for dtml-if var1 and var2, you should use: dtml-if "(_.has_key('var1') and var1) and (_.has_key('var2') and

Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-11 Thread Dieter Maurer
Stuart Foster writes: I have a DTML method that is called from a document. I need to pass a value to it like a parameter would be passed to a function. dtml-var some_method(param=value) That does not look too bad, but you forgot the "..." around the call. You should include two

Re: [Zope] 'showREQUEST' or 'show_REQUEST' ?

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Alexander
Chris Withers wrote: Jason Cunliffe wrote: PS. Be warned: 8-() if you try put the code above in a DTML methods named 'showREQUEST' or 'show_REQUEST' it will not work = 'Id already in use' That's a little weird... Can anyone shed any light on this? I get an error when I try to add

Re: [Zope] 'showREQUEST' or 'show_REQUEST' ?

2000-09-11 Thread Evan Simpson
From: Steve Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get an error when I try to add a DTML Method with REQUEST anywhere in the id. This is fruit of a needlessly broad restriction on REQUEST traversal, and is fixed in CVS. Cheers, Evan @ digicool 4-am ___

[Zope] My Z Class

2000-09-11 Thread Karl Munroe
I have constructed a z class which contians other products. Is it possible for me to have access and edit the properties of the objects contained in the z class. For example. MYZClass contains an image object...how do I change the and edit the photo contained in the class

[Zope] Using GUF (generic user folder) under 2.2.x?

2000-09-11 Thread Nathan Bell
Is there a way to get GUF to work under the new version of zope? I know it worked quite easily under older versions, but I can't get it to run at all under 2.2.1. Sincerely,Nathan Bell));

[Zope] GDChart on Linux

2000-09-11 Thread Hung Jung Lu
OKie, I now remember I did succeed in building GDChart on Linux. :) Let me repost here a message exchange with Mike Steed a while back in the Python mailing list, so in the future I won't get lost again. :) Hung Jung == From: Mike Steed [EMAIL

[Zope] (no subject)

2000-09-11 Thread Matthew Burleigh
ignore -- - Matthew Burleigh - Systems Administrator, Digital Creations - publishers of Zope. - (888)344-4332 -- http://www.digicool.com - http://www.zope.org ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No

[Zope] dtml-in theentiresite

2000-09-11 Thread peter be
In the root A DTML Method Some objects (mostly DTML Documents) have a property (boolean) that tells whether this is a helppage or not. What I want to do is to loop though eash and every object in the entire site (not very big) and check if the object has this property. pseudo code

RE: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML method ??

2000-09-11 Thread Stuart Foster
This is the way I had to do it what's up with the two extra params? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dieter Maurer Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 2:24 PM To: Stuart Foster Cc: Zope List Subject: Re: [Zope] How to Pass values to a DTML

Re: [Zope] Using Chinese Characters

2000-09-11 Thread icottee
With reference to inputting chinese characters I have similar issues within handling Japanese. My two solutions are either use Internet Explorer (if you have a windows machine) and use their add on extensions (download 5.5 and look at the extra options during download setup) or use emacs with

Re: [Zope] keeping Java Servlets session ids based on url rewriti ng

2000-09-11 Thread Chris McDonough
Albert, I've put this in the collector as a possible bug... hopefully it will get fixed with the next release if it proves not to be the proper behavior. In the meantime, you want want to try messing around with that regex to get the appropriate behavior for your environment. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Zope] Xron TypeError revisited

2000-09-11 Thread Dwayne Morrison
Hello, I posted earlier about Xron 0.0.9 event scheduling woes. One of my stabs in the dark seems to work. I removed the 'this()' parameter entirely and now am able to schedule events via DTML. I also had to add the 'US/Eastern' parameter to the DateTime call to get a current value for

[Zope-dev] is INSTANCE_HOME broken on Win32?

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Withers
Hello :-) I'm trying to make Squishdot work with INSTANCE_HOME nicely. However, the testing is going wrong on a normal Win32 Install... I had lots of lines that went something like: f=open('%s/Products/%s.dtml' % (SOFTWARE_HOME,file)) Which generates:

[Zope-dev] Re: ZPatterns: Error: User error! :-/

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Alexander
Steve Alexander wrote: I have a customizer folder with various data-plugins and customizers. snipped File lib/python/Products/ZPatterns/Providers.py, line 178, in namesForRegistration (Object: PlugInBase) TypeError: (see above) I'll start to look into this. Any advice would

RE: [Zope-dev] Z SQL Method Patch

2000-09-11 Thread T.J. Mannos
Casey, I just wanted to thank you very, very, VERY much for that tip! I've spent far too many hours debugging very long, complex Z SQL methods. This will be an enormous help! By the way, it works like a charm on ZMySQLDA. Thanks! - T.J. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Zope-dev] ZPatterns: Error reimporting .zexp containing Folder w/ CustomizerSupportSupport

2000-09-11 Thread Steve Alexander
I have a customizer folder with various data-plugins and customizers. I just exported it from one zope installation, for importing into one on a different server. The installations are more or less identical -- same zope version, same products. When I try to reimport it, I get the following

Re: [Zope-dev] is INSTANCE_HOME broken on Win32?

2000-09-11 Thread Evan Simpson
From: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to make Squishdot work with INSTANCE_HOME nicely. However, the testing is going wrong on a normal Win32 Install... I had lots of lines that went something like: f=open('%s/Products/%s.dtml' % (SOFTWARE_HOME,file)) Which generates:

[Zope-dev] User Info Folder Product Released

2000-09-11 Thread Didier Frick
Hi all, I just released a Zope product, but since I'm a Zope newbie I'm still wondering whether there is something fundamentally wrong with my idea or not. Could someone check that thing and tell me whether I'm completely off base ? I'm pretty sure there would be a way to solve the same

Re: [Zope-dev] PATH_TRANSLATED delimted with backslash ?

2000-09-11 Thread Dieter Maurer
Steve Alexander writes: When I look at the DTML Document through the web, the "self" object passed to the breadcrumbs external method is the folder that contains the DTML Document. (I thought that should only be the case for DTML Methods!) I expect, it is the folder containing the

[Zope-dev] Back from the dead xmlc

2000-09-11 Thread Jason Spisak
Zope Devers, THis is going to seem strange coming from someone who hasn't been on the list in a long time, but I was at the Linux Expo in San Jose, and sat in on a Web app talk. Lutris was in charge of the panel, and they talked about xmlc. I went to their booth and asked about it. I think it