[Zope-CMF] Re: FSPropertiesObject - lines property

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:17:58 +0100


Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> Hi,
> i have seen you are the current maintainer of 
> CMF/CMFCore/FSPropertiesObject.py. if i should put this question on the 
>  collector - please tell me so and forgive me.

Hmmm... what leads you to believe I'm the current maintainer?

I wonder if hte list has any ideas on this:

> My problem is a follows:
> i need a lines property for one of my cmf products and put the default 
> values into a .props file inside my products skin directory. the .prop 
> file is imported correctly, but i found no way to format the values of 
> the lines property correct. the best i get is a list with one element of 
> type string.
> 
> i looked into ZPublisher.Converters.file2lines and found, that the 
> converter wants to split on '\n' which clearly is not possible inside 
> _readfile().
> 
> i looked in other projects but found no example of adequate usage.
> could you point me to an example of a correct lines property formating 
> or give me a clue, how i could work around this (i thought about extra 
> testing on property type and splitting on a self defines separator ?)

cheers,

Chris