If your documents are too big you can whittle them down 2 ways:
1. If you have sections of code that could be used as is on other forms, (for example
a section building a dropdown list that uses
an SQL query to populate it.) , move them into their own methods and use <dtml-var
that_method> in their place in your document.
2. If the section is specific to this form you can stash it in a property with a text
type and call it with <dtml-var
that_property>.
Both of these will reduce the size of the main dtml text without changing the form.
You could conceivably have a huge page that is nothing but 20 or 30 <dtml-var
this_or_that_property_or_method> statements.
NOTE: For # 2 to really be usable you need to hack Zope to make the textarea used to
display properties of the text type wider and
taller.
Look in lib/python/ofs/properties.html at about line 65 you will see the following:
<dtml-elif "type=='text'">
<textarea name="<dtml-var id>:text" rows="8" cols="60" wrap="off"><dtml-var
"getProperty(id)" html_quote></textarea>
What you see above already has my changed values for "rows" and "cols"
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A suggestion for the future: the Zope management interface could be changed to put
only a certain number of characters in a
textarea. The amount would be a changable property. If the dtml for a page exceeds
that amount Zope would serve it up in 2 or more
textareas.
Jim Sanford
----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 9:35 AM
Subject: [Zope] Textarea Limits (slightly off topic)
I'm running into a limit to the amount of text that IE 5 will display on the
Macintosh. I am wondering if this is true of all
browsers and platforms or unique to IE5/Mac. This of course limits the size of
documents that can be edited through the manage
interface.
Now I really wish Pike worked as an editor without it's problems with > signs.
Josh
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Joshua Brauer
Computer Support Scientist
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
(970) 491-1080/pager: (970) 498-7995, #5837
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