[Zope-dev] ANN: TableView 0.01 available

[Andrew Wilcox]

This is an initial development release of code in progress.  Hackers and
other help welcome!

Release 0.01 is up on the Zope site at
http://www.zope.org/Members/AndrewWilcox/TableView/

A TableView displays a folder of objects as an HTML table.  Each
object in the folder is displayed as a row in the table, and the
columns show property values from the objects.

You can also use a ZClass that subclasses from ObjectManager.  So if
you have a CD_Collection class that contains CD objects, the TableView
will display your collection of CD's.

Goals of the project:

* Create a general-purpose Zope interface for editing data in a tabular
format.

* Let users easily arrange a list of items in a particular order.

* Allow web site designers to display information in an HTML table
  with needing to know the ins and outs of HTML coding with the
  <table> tag, and programming with <dtml-in> tag.

This is my first attempt at creating a Zope product distribution, so
feedback on packaging, installation problems, etc. would be great.

Feedback on the design approach from experienced Zope hackers would be
terrific as well.  The product creates an object that displays a view of
another object, similar to the model-view paradigm you see in Java or
Smalltalk programming.  Right now the displayer and the displayee get
linked through acquisition, but that might not be the best way to do it.

Thanks all,

Andrew