[Zope3-Users] Javascript and custom widgets
I'm missing something... again... I've started writing some widgets for my current project, some of which will make use of some javascript. I'd like to load a script in the head of the page when such a widget is being used (so that a window.onload function can parse the dom tree and apply the relevant javascript to the widget). It seems a shame to add such a script into the main template of my skin - since that will result in the script running on every page, regardless of whether its needed. Also that would deprive my widget of its spangly functions when being used in another skin - such as rotterdam. Like-wise I don't really want to write a custom template for the form. The autoform machinery is so cool... I hoped to find ZCML directive which would load a resource into a slot for a particular browser:editForm/addForm. No such luck. Looking around I found the pagelet directive that tiks uses to overcome the same problem in places like its fckeditor widget - is this the way forward? Is the pagelet likely to make it into the core? What am I missing today? Thanks in advance for any sage advice. Rupert ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
Re: [Zope3-Users] Javascript and custom widgets
On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Rupert Redington wrote: I'm missing something... again... I've started writing some widgets for my current project, some of which will make use of some javascript. This is precisely what we use zc.resourcelibrary for. It has some warts, but we use it, we want to improve it, and it does what we want. See http://svn.zope.org/zc.resourcelibrary/trunk/src/zc/resourcelibrary/ and specifically http://svn.zope.org/zc.resourcelibrary/trunk/src/zc/resourcelibrary/ README.txt?view=auto Gary ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
RE: [Zope3-Users] Javascript and custom widgets
Hi Ruppert [...] Looking around I found the pagelet directive that tiks uses to overcome the same problem in places like its fckeditor widget - is this the way forward? Is the pagelet likely to make it into the core? The pagelet get move from tiks to zope and back again ;-) But there is a replacement in the zope core called zope.viewlet. Why, first, we used pagelets which act at the TAL namespace and macro level. This seems to be to hard for many developers. Stephan Richter was refactoring the pagelets and we implemented the zope.viewlet which are a zope.contentprovider implementation. If you need a easy concept for register a javascript, you can use viewlets. btw, they provide a JavaScript viewlet base class which can be used with the viewlet directive. But if you like to use the Rotterdam skin, which I think will be removed in future releases (perhaps not the next one), then you have to use the zc.resourcelibrary which Gary Poster proposed. The resourcelibrary is a great concept which injects the javascript tag into the head during post processing. I didn't use the resoucelibrary, but I guess I will take a look at this part in the next future and perhaps use it also in Tiks. Regards Roger Ineichen What am I missing today? Thanks in advance for any sage advice. Rupert ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
