Re: [Zope-dev] cvs checkin?

2001-04-16 Thread Jonothan Farr
if find(v,'\r') = 0: v=join(split(v,'\r'),'') -if find(v,'\n') = 0: v=join(split(v,'\n'),'br\n') +if find(v,'\n') = 0: v=join(split(v,'\n'),'br /\n') Out of curiosity, what is the reason for using join(split(...)) instead of just replace()? Is it really faster or something?

Re: [Zope-dev] FTP error messages

2001-02-20 Thread Jonothan Farr
I've now added the ability to set the message to be sent back to the FTP client on FTPResponse. The patch is attached. We'll be using it and I hope that it, or something similar, makes it into the 2.3.1. Try submitting it to the collector. It's likely to get lost on the mailing list. --jfarr

Re: [Zope] download file from LocalFS

2001-01-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
When mylfs references a directory meta_type is 'Local Directory' but if mylfs references a file meta_type is 'File'. How can I let the user download the file? I tried it like this: dtml-call "RESPONSE.setHeader('content-type',mylfs.content_type)" dtml-var mylfs It mostly worked, except

Re: [Zope] Calling a DTML Document using a string

2001-01-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
- Original Message - From: "Anderson Ami" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: [Zope] Calling a DTML Document using a string How can I do a dtml document call using the call dtml tag ? e.g. - I have 3 DTML documents ( bot1, bot2

Re: [Zope] Calling a DTML Document using a string

2001-01-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Boy did I ever misunderstand the question. Dang. Sorry! Nevermind me! --jfarr - Original Message - From: "Dieter Maurer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Anderson Ami" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Calling a DTML Document

[Zope-dev] Is manage_add for products broken?

2001-01-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
Hello all, One of the Local File System users pointed out that calling manage_addLocalFS from dtml doesn't work. I did some checking and discovered that calling manage_addXXX doesn't work for any of the built-in products either. My testing was with 2.2.5. Am I crazy or didn't this work at one

Re: [Zope] Stopping a dtml-in

2001-01-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
Now just don't get me started on "_['index-whatever']" :-) Funny. I patched that too, and I know I'm not the only one. It also "fell through the cracks". *sigh* I've never understood the reaction that always comes from DC w.r.t. patches that fix that. There always seems to be a

Re: [Zope] Stopping a dtml-in

2001-01-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
Anyway, I'm sorry that your proposal fell through the cracks; the "hot money" these days is all on HiperDOM/XHTML stuff, rather than DTML, so it may stay there (especially if the patch is hard to apply to a recent Zope). It would be easy to apply the patch. The work would be in testing it.

Re: [Zope] Stopping a dtml-in

2001-01-18 Thread Jonothan Farr
Now just don't get me started on "_['index-whatever']" :-) Funny. I patched that too, and I know I'm not the only one. It also "fell through the cracks". *sigh* --jfarr ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope] Tools used for programming Zope

2001-01-18 Thread Jonothan Farr
do an xml export. You can save cvs that to your hearts content. ... but then I'll have to forego readability, edit-ability, etc. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that this isn't a problem for more people, I'll wager that it is a problem for lots of people but you don't hear from them here.

Re: [Zope] Stopping a dtml-in

2001-01-17 Thread Jonothan Farr
http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Patches/dtml-break I requested that this page be cataloged but it never was. I also submitted it as a patch to the distribution but it was refused. Something about a new dtml-in implementation that I haven't seen materialize in the last 5 versions or so. I

Re: [Zope] Is it time for mandatory subject keys?

2001-01-17 Thread Jonothan Farr
Maybe it's time for mandatory subject keys. Something like NEW: for newbies questions; OT: for off-topic (like this); You mean ADM: for administrative topics. I think it's a great idea. I'll do it if DC decides on the keys. --jfarr ___ Zope

Re: [Zope] In desparate need of some help

2001-01-16 Thread Jonothan Farr
Not sure why you're crashing but your SQL looks incorrect and incomplete. It should be something more like: select * from songdetails where some_field='' and some_other_field = 2000 ... ; Hope this helps, --jfarr - Original Message - From: "alankirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Zope] [python] converting int to string?

2001-01-08 Thread Jonothan Farr
in python you can do: str(int) and in zope you do it like _.str(int) You can also use the short form in both Zope and Python: `int` Two of those funny `` characters surrounding what you want converted to a string. The backtick notation `` is actually the shorthand for repr(), not

Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-03 Thread Jonothan Farr
This sounds pretty exciting. Sounds like someone should set up a proposal on dev.zope.org.I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to contribute much development right now but I'd be willing to help test and participate in discussions. --jfarr - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Zope] dtml-in: total??

2001-01-02 Thread Jonothan Farr
dtml-var sequence-length - Original Message - From: "Edwin Martin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 7:23 AM Subject: [Zope] dtml-in: total?? Hello, I'm making a generic DTML-method which shows a bar like AltaVista does: [ previous] [1]

Re: [Zope] Advice on searching/indexing Word documents?

2001-01-02 Thread Jonothan Farr
I used to write text filters in C and Lex for my previous employer - one of these days I will figure out how to extend python with C and do this. Here's one that's written entirely in Python: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex/ I've seen a couple of other implementations out

Re: [Zope] LocalFS question

2000-12-12 Thread Jonothan Farr
At least the "Local File System" object does not expose its children via "getattr" (which is required for the usual "." operator to work) but only via "[...]". This probably is a bug. No this is by design, as explained in the how-to. Most operating systems allow period (.) characters in

Re: [Zope] persistence and dictionaries

2000-12-08 Thread Jonothan Farr
Maybe I'm mistaken, but it seems like you can put an instance of an object that doesn't inherit from Persistent into the ZODB just fine, but its contents won't persist, so you'll always end up with a copy of the object as it was first added to the database. --jfarr - Original Message -

Re: [Zope] persistence and dictionaries

2000-12-08 Thread Jonothan Farr
Oops. You snipped the contents of MoreStuff.addStuff(). No way to tell what's going on without that! --jfarr - Original Message - From: "Matt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jonothan Farr" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:39 P

Re: [Zope] Patch to avoid hypenation variables and more

2000-12-04 Thread Jonothan Farr
I've had patches for this for some time at http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Patches/Patches/dtml-in-sv I was told they weren't being considered for inclusion because they will be superceded by the named dtml-in construct (which would also supercede your second patch). No word on when or if

Re: [Zope] Search and replace

2000-11-20 Thread Jonothan Farr
ideally two external methods. one recurses through folders collect objects of a particular meta_type the second external method calls the first to get a collection of objects for a particular meta_type and performs string manipulations on the raw() representation of the method. I think a

Re: [Zope] PropertyManager

2000-11-14 Thread Jonothan Farr
The Local File System product does this. You can check out the source code at http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS. --jfarr - Original Message - From: "Max M" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Zope@Zope. Org" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 4:39 PM Subject: [Zope]

Re: [Zope] Bypass ZODB and use File System

2000-10-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
As long as you're only storing text, whether it be html or dtml or what, then LocalFS might be a good solution for you. You still get through-the-web content management, and lots of neat Zope-isms like acquisition. What you can't do is attach persistent properties to the files you store locally,

Re: [Zope] Searching a LocalFS through Zope

2000-10-17 Thread Jonothan Farr
Check out LocalFS v0.9.6. Now with ZCatalog support! --jfarr - Original Message - From: "neeloy_saha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:12 AM Subject: [Zope] Searching a LocalFS through Zope Hi all, Well I had sent this

[Zope] new LocalFS release: 0.9.6

2000-10-16 Thread Jonothan Farr
Changes v0.9.6 - Fixed saving large File and Image objects. - Added ZCatalog support. http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS/ --jfarr ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross

Re: [Zope] Ability to catalog localFS objects in the portal catalog

2000-10-13 Thread Jonothan Farr
There are some patches floating around to add cataloging to LocalFS objects. I haven't gotten around to including them in the standard distro. --jfarr - Original Message - From: "neeloy_saha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:56

Re: [Zope] Fighting htmllib in external method

2000-10-10 Thread Jonothan Farr
Try using a StringIO object as your file. import htmllib import formatter from cStringIO import StringIO def index(self, html): file = StringIO() fmtr = formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(file)) p = htmllib.HTMLParser(fmtr) p.feed(html) file.seek(0) return

Re: [Zope] How to use manage_addLocalFS

2000-10-02 Thread Jonothan Farr
That should work. Can you post the traceback? --jfarr - Original Message - From: "Grewen.de" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 6:48 PM Subject: [Zope] How to use manage_addLocalFS Hi all, I want to create an LocalFS object. I use dtml-call

Re: [Zope] dtml-tree urlparam

2000-09-18 Thread Jonothan Farr
Oops. Forgot to mention, this patch adds a new param to the tree tag, 'urlparam_expr' which is a Python expression to evaluate and use as the urlparam. --jfarr - Original Message - From: JĂșlio Dinis Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 12:59 PM

Re: [Zope] Static pages

2000-09-14 Thread Jonothan Farr
If they are: - very large (MB+) - generated by some external process -or- - uploaded by users ...then Local File System is one way to go. Otherwise, loadsite.py will just slurp them all into the ZODB and you can serve them from there. --jfarr - Original Message - From: Nick Trout

Re: [Zope] Getting the count from dtml-in

2000-09-12 Thread Jonothan Farr
How do I get the count in a sequence? dtml sequence-length --jfarr ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists -

[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Cool, we like the . :-)

2000-08-17 Thread Jonothan Farr
What if an object id contains a period? --jfarr - Original Message - From: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:59 AM Subject: [Zope-dev] Cool, we like the . :-) Steve Alexander wrote: I

Re: [Zope] How to use RESPONSE.redirect ?

2000-08-15 Thread Jonothan Farr
HTTP is stateless. You'll have to build the entire query string and put it into your redirect URL. --jfarr - Original Message - From: Stuart Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Zope List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:19 AM Subject: [Zope] How to use RESPONSE.redirect ?

Re: [Zope] Zope bug or my stupidity?

2000-08-15 Thread Jonothan Farr
Once again I'll point out that I have a patch that allows sequence_item. I've submitted it to the collector but it was rejected because of the AFAIK not-yet-scheduled "named dtml-in" feature. http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Patches/dtml-in-sv/ --jfarr Hardware, n.: The parts of a

Re: [Zope] dtml-in and tuples

2000-08-14 Thread Jonothan Farr
Well in Python a list is mutable and a tuple is not. --jfarr - Original Message - From: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: [Zope] dtml-in and tuples Hi, Why and how are python tuples (like, this) handled differently

Re: [Zope] Why is 'Shutdown' an Error?

2000-08-10 Thread Jonothan Farr
Because it throws a SystemExit exception. If you're not running in debug mode "-D" you won't see the traceback. --jfarr "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching!" Anonymous - Original Message - From: William BC Crandall

Re: [Zope] Re: Upload on a local File System

2000-08-08 Thread Jonothan Farr
You should be able to eliminate the dtml method like so: upload_image_form - FORM ACTION="LocalFS_objekt_id/manage_upload" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="action"

Re: [Zope] interating though REQUEST.form in python???

2000-08-08 Thread Jonothan Farr
for name,value in REQUEST.form.keys(): Note the function call (parentheses). --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope] acquisition vs. inheritance

2000-08-04 Thread Jonothan Farr
Dang! Just when I think I understand this acquisition thing. ;) Sorry for the misinformation. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 - Original Message - From: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonothan Farr [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Zope] Redirecting from Python?

2000-08-04 Thread Jonothan Farr
Are you doing a dtml-var or dtml-call to call your external method? I believe you need a dtml-call. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 - Original Message - From: Christopher J. Kucera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Zope] acquisition vs. inheritance

2000-08-03 Thread Jonothan Farr
Is it possible to have just one top level object that refers to other objects that get overridden as you go into other folders? Acquisition works the other way around. You can create objects in subfolders whose contents are overriden higher up. You can't have an object at the top whose

Re: [Zope] boolean property bug

2000-07-31 Thread Jonothan Farr
You should submit this to the collector, preferable with a patch! ;) Otherwise it's likely to get lost in the chaos of the list. http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 - Original Message -

Re: [Zope] dtml-tree question

2000-07-31 Thread Jonothan Farr
Jonothan Farr wrote: Is it because the document is at the top of the namespace stack instead of the request object in the dtml document case, but not in the dtml method case? Hurm, thinking for the right words and I think(?) namespace is the right one. Anyway, DTML documents have one

Re: [Zope] Adding an XMLDocument instance Programmatically

2000-07-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
I can' t seem to get beyond importing Document (cannot import name Document). Do I need to import other modules? Is this the best/only way to do this?? Appreciate any help. from Products.XMLDocument import Document I think you missed an 'XMLDocument'. from

Re: [Zope] REQUEST a string object?

2000-07-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
I couldn't reproduce this. The following code works for me in Zope 2.1.6, verbatim. dtml-var standard_html_header dtml-call "REQUEST.set('spec', '*')" dtml-call "REQUEST.set('num_dir_columns', 3)" table dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ctr', 0)" dtml-in "local.fileValues(REQUEST.get('spec', _.None))"

[Zope] new LocalFS version 0.9.5

2000-07-23 Thread Jonothan Farr
It's been a while since the last LocalFS release. I wanted to fix a couple of major issues for the next release but I'm a little stuck. I decided to post a minor bug fix release instead. This release fixes the following issues. - Fixed bobobase_modification_time. - Fixed cross-platform bug

Re: [Zope] dumb dtml-in question

2000-07-21 Thread Jonothan Farr
How about just: dtml-var "_.len(folder.objectIds())" --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 - Original Message - From: Andy McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] dumb

Re: [Zope] Creating folders in LocalFS

2000-07-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
Folder creation isn't really supported in LocalFS at the moment. Very low level support is there (module function _save_Folder) but it's not intended to be called externally and there doesn't seem to be any path to call it. There is certainly not a local definition of manage_addFolder

Re: [Zope] sequence-item and

2000-07-18 Thread Jonothan Farr
I've patched this for 2.1.6. Now you can use sequence_item in addition to sequence-item. http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Patches/dtml-in-sv There's a much cooler and more elegant solution in the pipe for 2.2. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/DTMLWiki/NamedDTMLInLoop --jfarr "Perl is worse

Re: [Zope] Re: Re: [Zope] LocalFS Documentation

2000-07-13 Thread Jonothan Farr
Was the LocalFS upload support released? Earlier versions did not support upload, but I know the author was working on it. Yup. Since 0.8.1. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 ___ Zope

Re: [Zope] .dtml files

2000-07-12 Thread Jonothan Farr
I have found function calls such as: manage_roleForm=HTMLFile('roleEdit', globals()) which I believe creates an HTML document template from the named file. But, what is the mechanism that calls/displays mange_roleForm? The class heirarchy looks something like this: Globals.HTMLFile

Re: [Zope] File referencing and LocalFS

2000-07-05 Thread Jonothan Farr
1)Folders names are directly related to string fields in a MySQL database which use spaces between words (eg New York), but folders names don't use spaces (eg NewYork). How can I skip spaces from database fields to make them refer to these folders (eg New York -- NewYork)?

[Zope] LocalFS cache, was Re: ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-29 Thread Jonothan Farr
How do you do to cache those objects, since LocalFS referenced objects are not cached by Zope? They aren't cached. I experimented with adding a cache, but ran into some problems and gave up. It would probably be worth giving it another shot, though. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Jonothan Farr
In theory, you could use ZCatalog to catalog objects in the file system or in a RDBMS, providing that you can provide paths for them. I don't think anyone's done this yet. There are bound to be bumps from wjoever does it first. :) There's a patch to the Local File System product to allow

Re: [Zope] LocalFS and Cache Issues

2000-06-28 Thread Jonothan Farr
I am using a combination of Zope to create and maintain a MySQL database. This database is full of images files so I decided to keep them outside MySQL for caching facilities. My question are: 1)image files referenced by LocalFS objects are cached by Zope? No. and 2)In this

[Zope] Re: Slow File Access With LocalFS

2000-06-27 Thread Jonothan Farr
It sounds to me like the Apache server is just writing the data directly to the HTTP connection as it is read. I believe that's how HTTP "streaming" works. I also believe this is possible to do using the Zope HTTPResponse object. Does anyone have any ideas? --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python

Re: [Zope] ZMysqlDA

2000-06-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Sorry for the delayed response. I just posted a patch for this on the Zope site at http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Patches --jfarr - Original Message - From: Brenton Bills [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 12:06 AM Subject: [Zope] ZMysqlDA Hi

[Zope-dev] Re: possible bug in dtml-in

2000-06-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
You want sequence-end, not sequence-last. That just bit me yesterday. ;) --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 - Original Message - From: Federico Di Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Zope Dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22,

[Zope] Re: Writing to LocalFS

2000-06-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
Again, after some searching, I am looking for the syntax to write a file / append to a file in a Local File System. This is certainly where my Python days seem to slow my down b/c I would have just: contents = open('/path/file.txt', "r") to read and contents = open('/path/file.txt',

[Zope] new product: NISUserFolder

2000-06-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
I've created a new product similar to etcUserFolder that authenticates against an NIS database. http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/NISUserFolder/ This also improves upon the etcUserFolder product by defining a separate role for each user group, allowing more fine-grained control of

[Zope] Re: Problem with LocalFS

2000-06-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
This is a known problem with LocalFS. The only workaround I know of is to put your dtml code into a file, give it a .dtml extension, and place it in the directory you want to upload to. This problem will be addressed in the next version of LocalFS. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because

[Zope] Re: LocalFS cross platform bug

2000-06-20 Thread Jonothan Farr
How about this: +drive,rest=os.path.splitdrive(path) +if drive: +path = string.replace(rest, '\\', '/') Oops, looks like this doesn't work after all. The Linux version of splitdrive doesn't actually do the split :-(. Doh! Looks like we'll need to roll our

[Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data

2000-06-20 Thread Jonothan Farr
What about just storing your meta-data in files in the local file system? Then you wouldn't need to modify the LocalFS product at all. Just write a ZClass that can read/write you meta-data file format. Might well be a better approach. I'll think about it. Unfortunately, it doesn't

[Zope] Re: LocalFS cross platform bug

2000-06-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
This is a known bug. Thanks for the patch. The problem with it is that filenames containing backslash characters are valid on Unix. I haven't been able to come up with a solution to this. Any ideas? That's why I check for a file name that starts with a letter followed by a colon (hmm,

[Zope] Re: LocalFS w/ annotation data

2000-06-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
BTW: I'm working on associating other annotation data with LocalFS files. My current thinking is to release the result as a separate product, since I can't think of a way to do it that doesn't hack LocalFS sources. Basically, I'm adding a PersistentMapping (from id to arbitrary class) to

[Zope] Re: Newbie: Listing filesystem objects?

2000-06-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
NewbieQ of the moment: So there's a folder on my server, call it \\server\files\logos. I want to list its contents in a drop-down listbox in a form; something like select name="logo_filename" option selected value="default.jpg"default.jpg option value="file1.jpg"file1.jpg ...

Re: [Zope-dev] Cataloging LocalFS content

2000-05-30 Thread Jonothan Farr
I think, cataloging "LocalFS" content would be nice. I have the following problems with it: 1. "LocalFS" defines various meta types: "Local File System", "Local Directory" and "Local File". Only "Local File System" is a "true" meta type which should appear in the available

[Zope] Re: M$soft

2000-05-26 Thread Jonothan Farr
Jet is inherently thread-unsafe, and M$ has no plans to fix this (such a fix would cut into their ability to sell SQL Server). This issue has been a long-running problem in the Windows world; the only solution is to serialize *all* access to the DB (even concurrent *reads* can foul each

Re: [Zope] sequence-*

2000-05-26 Thread Jonothan Farr
Many of these variables cause problems for those starting out with Zope. Why not create alternate names such as sequence_* and degrade the former? Gotta agree with this :-) Here's the patch. I'll submit it to the collector too. Enjoy.

Re: [Zope] M$soft

2000-05-25 Thread Jonothan Farr
Here's a reference that dropped from Google when I asked "corruption concurrent microsoft access database" http://dgl.com/dglinfo/1998/dg980825.html (half way down page) I wouldn't use Access with Zope. Sounds like a bug in the Access UI not the underlying Jet DB engine. --jfarr

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Just curious. How do you do diffs? How do you resolve conflicts? How do you handle login/logout? --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Zope-dev] ZCVS Mixin class... feedback sought.

2000-05-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Good questions! You can just go to the 'admin' tab and type 'diff'. The admin tab lets you execute just about any cvs command with arguments stat, rtag etc etc. Doing a diff on a zexp file isn't going to be very helpful, though. Any thoughts on integrating some sort of xml diff

Re: [Zope] M$soft

2000-05-24 Thread Jonothan Farr
Is anybody bold enough to try Zope with ODBC to an ACCESS database? I wrote a Jet database adapter so you can skip the ODBC and go straight to access. http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/ZJetDA/ SQL server is a different story. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted

Re: [Zope] Executing an external program

2000-05-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
Note that it works from the Python command line, but not from a Zope external method. I'm still trying to figure out why it is failing from within Zope (anybody have an idea?). How does it 'not work' from an external method? --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it

Re: [Zope] uploading a batch of files

2000-05-22 Thread Jonothan Farr
There's an external method that loads a batch of files from the local machine into the zope database. I've got a copy if you're interested, since I can't seem to find it on the site anymore. --jfarr "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 14 Oct 1998 -

Re: [Zope] Local File System

2000-05-19 Thread Jonothan Farr
I'm just getting started, but managed to use the following to display only JPG's, and then only ones starting with "tn_" (my thumbnails): There's an easier way. =) ul dtml-in "tester.fileIds(spec='tn_*.jpg')" img src="tester/dtml-var sequence-item" /dtml-in /ul --jfarr "Perl is