Re: [Zope-dev] Spell checking module

2001-06-27 Thread Phil Harris
Somewhere on the xmlrpc.com site there is reference to a spell checker that can be used via xmlrpc, this could be used in Zope quite easily. http://www.stuffeddog.com/speller/ I think is the place to look. Phil - Original Message - From: Remi Delon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] Spell checking module

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
Has anybody ever written anything for zope that does something similar ? I was thinking of using ispell, maybe through a pipe ? A search on ispell or even spell on the zope.org website doesn't give any interesting result (same on python.org). I do not know about any spell checker either. You

Re: [Zope-dev] Spell checking module

2001-06-27 Thread Morten W. Petersen
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Remi Delon wrote: I have a website where users can post messages (using a textarea). I would like to be able to spell-check what they submit and notify them of possible mistakes. (much like the online spell-checker of hotmail that I'm using right now :-)) Has anybody

Re: Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

2001-06-27 Thread Erik Enge
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Stephan Richter wrote: Okay, okay...I stayed up and typed it down pretty quick (2 hours). I attached it to this mail. It is plain text, since I was too lazy to do it in HTML. It might be a little unstructured, but I am too tired to fix that now. So what does it do? :)

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPL and GPL

2001-06-27 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
hi, i wanted to draw myself from this thread before annoying the whole list, so i'll take paul mail as an excuse to write some final comments. On 27 Jun 2001 09:06:16 -0400, Paul Everitt wrote: 1) I wanted to specifically address something in Michael's post here. We fully expect people to

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPL and GPL

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Everitt
With great trepidation, I add a post to this thread. As Barry has mentioned, this has all been discussed a LOT. I'll try to summarize and clarify a few points: 1) I wanted to specifically address something in Michael's post here. We fully expect people to profit from Zope, even if that

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPL and GPL

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Everitt
I'd like to add a quick clarification, then I'll reply more later. Frederico brought up a good point that indicated I wasn't clear. It is a *desire* of ours to be GPL-compatible. Not a requirement, as it can be awfully tricky, complicated, and time-consuming to get there. But we've told

Re: [Zope-dev] Hey Chris, question for you

2001-06-27 Thread Casey Duncan
Chris McDonough wrote: Hi casey, Changes were recently made to Field/Keyword Indexes so that they will store empty items. An equivalent change could be made to TextIndexes... we'd need to think about that a bit. But for your purposes, you might want to start out attempting to write

Re: [Zope-dev] Hey Chris, question for you

2001-06-27 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:42:40 -0700 (PDT), Michel Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm the reason for the current behavior was optimization by saving space not indexing empty values. I was always very pleased with that characteristic, but I had not realised it was a design goal. I thought I

Re: [Zope-dev] Hey Chris, question for you

2001-06-27 Thread Chris McDonough
I think it has changed for FieldIndexes. You can now make the distinction between doesnt have that attribute and attribute is one of [None, '', [], ()] within a Field Index. You do this in an almost natural way, the major exception being that you need to wrap a blank string ('') in a sequence

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPL and GPL

2001-06-27 Thread Erik Enge
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Paul Everitt wrote: It is a *desire* of ours to be GPL-compatible. Not a requirement, as it can be awfully tricky, complicated, and time-consuming to get there. But we've told people that we're intending to give it a shot. That's much appretiated :)

Re: Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
At 06:05 PM 6/27/01 +0200, Erik Enge wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Stephan Richter wrote: Exactly that. But the SmartWizard would provide you with a framework to build this Make New Python Product Wizard. If I get far enough, I will release the pre alpha today, just you see the proof of

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPL and GPL

2001-06-27 Thread R.
On 27 Jun 2001 09:06:16 -0400, Paul Everitt wrote: With great trepidation, I add a post to this thread. As Barry has mentioned, this has all been discussed a LOT. I'll try to summarize and clarify a few points: 1) I wanted to specifically address something in Michael's post here. We

Re: Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

2001-06-27 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hm. Wizard? if there are always many objects to create, may be it would be better to have a generic mechanism for asking users and represent app-/management interfaces rather then copying all the stuff over and over? Regards Tino --On Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2001 08:54 -0500 Stephan Richter [EMAIL

Re: Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

2001-06-27 Thread Erik Enge
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote: if there are always many objects to create, may be it would be better to have a generic mechanism for asking users and represent app-/management interfaces rather then copying all the stuff over and over? That's what mk-zprod does. Or rather,

Re: Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
if there are always many objects to create, may be it would be better to have a generic mechanism for asking users and represent app-/management interfaces rather then copying all the stuff over and over? Well, the current wizard version (which I hope I will be able to release in a couple more

Re: Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
At 10:45 PM 6/27/01 +0200, Erik Enge wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote: if there are always many objects to create, may be it would be better to have a generic mechanism for asking users and represent app-/management interfaces rather then copying all the stuff over and

Re: [Zope-dev] Speed up the learning curve

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Rottermann
Wrong Andy, writing Python products is far easier than guessing how to pass a variable to a DTML-method or other such DTML-Voodoo Robert - Original Message - From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rene Pijlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Zope-dev] Speed up the learning curve

2001-06-27 Thread Andy McKay
It depends on your experience. In your opinion you find it easier (now I can write a Zope product in my sleep I agree). Most Zope users however, in my experience, try ZClasses first. Cheers. -- Andy McKay. - Original Message - From: Robert Rottermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andy [EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] Speed up the learning curve

2001-06-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
Andy McKay wrote: It depends on your experience. In your opinion you find it easier (now I can write a Zope product in my sleep I agree). Most Zope users however, in my experience, try ZClasses first. When I came to Zope, within a week I was getting ready to write a Python product. (And I

Re: [Zope-dev] Speed up the learning curve

2001-06-27 Thread Andy McKay
When I came to Zope, within a week I was getting ready to write a Python product. (And I didn't even know Python yet! :-) ) Shane, you by no means fit into a Most Zope users category :) Cheers. -- Andy McKay. ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] Speed up the learning curve

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
At 08:49 PM 6/27/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote: Andy McKay wrote: It depends on your experience. In your opinion you find it easier (now I can write a Zope product in my sleep I agree). Most Zope users however, in my experience, try ZClasses first. When I came to Zope, within a week I

Re: [Zope-dev] Speed up the learning curve

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
At 07:20 PM 6/27/01 +0200, you wrote: Wrong Andy, writing Python products is far easier than guessing how to pass a variable to a DTML-method or other such DTML-Voodoo Even though I agree, I have to say it more politically correct: If you like clicky, clicky - interfaces, you like ZClasses

[Zope-dev] (no subject)

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
Hello everyone! OrderedFolder (which is used by SmartWizard) is mainly a little patch to the _setObject and _delObject method of the ObjectManager to support 'ordering' in ObjectManager-derived objects. It is a really tiny adjustment, so I hope DC will put it in the core somewhen, since it

[Zope-dev] SmartWizard released

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
Hello everyone, after a long night with a nice thunderstorm here in Nuremberg, I got the SmartWizard (first version) finished. Oh, you want to know what SmartWizard is? SmartWizard is a framework to generate Wizards for all sort of applications. The wizards are designed for the End User, so I

[Zope-dev] SmartSections 0.1.0 released

2001-06-27 Thread Stephan Richter
Hello everyone, Okay, all good things are three, so here is the last announcement. I also put SmartSections up on the server. Even though it is a big construction place, I thought you might want to look at it. Smart Section allows the End User which cannot write HTML code to design sites