[Zope-Moz] ANNOUNCE: Zope management tree in Mozilla

[Martijn Pieters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shalabh Chaturvedi [mailto:shalabh@pspl.co.in]
> 
> From: Martijn Pieters <mj@digicool.com>
> > Every time a user opens up a branch, the new datasource 
> gets added to a
> > JavaScript dictionary (to use a Python term). We could maybe avoid
> > adding the datasource to the tree when already in the 
> dictionary, but
> > this makes no difference to Mozilla right now. If it already has a
> > datasource loaded, it won't do so again.
> >
> > Now, when a user closes a branch, we remove the datasource 
> name _only
> > from the dictionary_. And when the window is closed, we persist the
> > dictionary. On reopening the window, the dictionary is 
> populated with
> > the persisted data, and we add all these datasources to the 
> tree again.
> 
> I was thinking of something similar too. How do you plan to 
> persist the
> dictionary? We can try to put it as a string of concatenated 
> URIs (with
> whitespace) in the datasources attribute of the tree element 
> itself. And also
> put in 'persist="datasources"'.
> Just an idea - haven't tested it.

Exactly the plan.

> 
> > I'll go and implement this today.
> 
> Great ! (hmm...now what do I do?)
> 

Toolbars, menus, popups? Other ideas:

- DTML editing window: (Just simple text editing, no validation or some
such). I have a few ideas about that one.

- Property sheet view

- Security views (tabbed?)

> > >
> > > An unrelated small functionality I've put in is a zp:Empty
> > > attibute in the RDF
> > > which is set to "true" <dtml-if tpValues>. It is used in the
> > > XUL so that
> > > twisties are shown only for non-empty treeitems.
> >
> > If you remove the 'container="true"' attribute, the above 
> hack is not
> > necessary, as Mozilla will find out whether or not they are empty by
> > itself.
> 
> Yes, but when the contents.rdf for the contents of a folder 
> is not loaded up,
> mozilla doesn't know if the folder is empty or not.
> So, no twisties are shown initially. You have to expand a 
> treeitem 'A' (this
> would load up the contents.rdf with the contents of A), then 
> collapse the
> parent treeitem of 'A' and reexpand it to see the twisty next to 'A'.

Very good point! Did not think about that one.

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