Re: [Zope-dev] Overriding a method in an instance.

2000-07-19 Thread Chris Withers
Shane Hathaway wrote: I have an idea: the _objects attribute of ObjectManagers could include a "configurable" flag, which would tell _checkId that the object can be overridden. Shane, Is this what became the ConfigurableInstances thing at:

Re: [Zope-dev] Overriding a method in an instance.

2000-07-19 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris Withers wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: I have an idea: the _objects attribute of ObjectManagers could include a "configurable" flag, which would tell _checkId that the object can be overridden. Shane, Is this what became the ConfigurableInstances thing at:

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Acquisition (was: [Zope-dev] Overriding a method in an instance.)

2000-07-11 Thread Toby Dickenson
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:14:17 -0400, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I wouldn't mind if someone posted this as a HOWTO. :-) I think theres two, slighly different versions in already HOWTOs ;-) Any chance of getting this into the Zope distribution? Toby Dickenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Zope-dev] Overriding a method in an instance.

2000-07-10 Thread Chris Withers
Hi, I guess this should be a feature request for the collector but I thought I'd see what other people thought first... I'd really like to be able to override methods in an instance of an object. Examples I can think of are Squishdot and the Tracker. In Squishdot, or any ZCatalog for that

Re: [Zope-dev] Overriding a method in an instance.

2000-07-10 Thread Chris Withers
Monty Taylor wrote: Make a folder that contains the overridden methods and call things through the context of that folder. Neat trick :-) We love acquisiton, but it won't quite do it :( The default index_html will get called, unless you put /folder/ on the end of your URL. which is horrible :(

Re: [Zope-dev] Overriding a method in an instance.

2000-07-10 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris Withers wrote: Monty Taylor wrote: Make a folder that contains the overridden methods and call things through the context of that folder. Neat trick :-) We love acquisiton, but it won't quite do it :( The default index_html will get called, unless you put /folder/ on the end of