Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2001-01-05 Thread Chris Withers
Christian Scholz wrote: yeah, this is exactly what I'm after too. I'd like the virtual objects the specialist is responsible for to have normal Zope management screens. Well, I think this shouldn't be too difficult to create. Just a subclass of Specialist and add some Contents-Tab,

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2001-01-04 Thread Chris Withers
Christian Scholz wrote: Well, virtual in the sense as a specialist is no real folder but can provide content from different sources. Thus what I mean is some mechanism which emulates objectIds() etc. so it looks to the user (and the ones using it via dtml) like a normal folder object.

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2001-01-04 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! Well, virtual in the sense as a specialist is no real folder but can provide content from different sources. Thus what I mean is some mechanism which emulates objectIds() etc. so it looks to the user (and the ones using it via dtml) like a normal folder object. Somehow like the

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2001-01-03 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi! Actually should answer to these posts... ;-) On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:11:37PM -0500, Steve Spicklemire wrote: Hi Christian, Well, nobody else answered that I saw... so I'll take a crack at your questions "CS" == Christian Scholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CS Hi

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2001-01-03 Thread Christian Scholz
Hi Steve! On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:45:46PM +, Steve Alexander wrote: Steve Spicklemire wrote: CS 2. Is it planned to provide something like a virtual folder CS which acts like a normal object manager but is controlled via CS ZPatterns (so actually something like

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2000-12-28 Thread Steve Alexander
Steve Spicklemire wrote: CS 2. Is it planned to provide something like a virtual folder CS which acts like a normal object manager but is controlled via CS ZPatterns (so actually something like Folder with Customizer CS Support just without the "anchor" in ZODB. (would

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns question

2000-12-28 Thread Steve Alexander
Steve Alexander wrote: return getattr(container.path.to.somewhere, name) That's the simple version, and it won't give the traversed-to object the correct context most of the time. To do that, I'd need to use an external method, and use the __of__ method to give the returned object

[Zope-dev] ZPatterns Question - Talking to a Specialist....

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Spicklemire
Hmm... this is probably more of a plain Zope question than a ZPatterns question.. but since I'm *using* ZPatterns, I thought I'd check what other folks are doing to implement apps with ZPatterns. I've been creating Specialists with DataSkin subclassed objects in their defaultRacks. The

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns Question

2000-08-10 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:58 PM 8/9/00 +0100, Steve Alexander wrote: 1: ZClass instances can have PropertySheets added to them, independently of any sheets declared in the ZClass class definition. I've been working with Zope for a while, but this had never occurred to me. I guess this is just another one of those

Re: [Zope-dev] ZPatterns Question

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Alexander
Thanks for your answers, Phillip. Here's what I've learned. I still need to try these out on a test system, to prove to myself that they work the way I think they do. 1: ZClass instances can have PropertySheets added to them, independently of any sheets declared in the ZClass class definition.