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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>I have External Editor (<a
href="http://www.plope.com/software/ExternalEditor/zopeedit-win32-0.9.3.exe">zopeedit-win32-0.9.3.exe</a>)
installed on my WinXP machine. It works fine with my IE6 browser.
But with Firefox 2.0, it doesn’t. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Specifically, with the ZMI running in Firefox, what
happens is:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>I get the stubby pencil icons on editable Zope
objects.</span></font> </li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Clicking on the stubby pencils brings up that page in
my selected external editor (currently Dreamweaver, but I have tried this
with other tools and the results are the same). So far, so good.</span></font>
</li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>But when I save changes from the external editor, the
changes don’t make it back into Zope, and they don’t show up
on the rendered pages. </span></font></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The changes <i><span style='font-style:italic'>do</span></i>
show up in the temp file that the external editor saves to. So the
problem is not with the external editor’s file saving abilities.</span></font>
</li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>No error messages occur. </span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>So the problem must be that the EE helper app is not
picking up the changes, or is not getting them back to Firefox.</span></font>
</li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>My hunch is that I have failed to execute the following
step in the External Editor’s Windows installation instructions (<a
href="http://www.plope.com/software/ExternalEditor/install-win32">http://www.plope.com/software/ExternalEditor/install-win32</a>):
“You can also register it (zopeedit.exe) with other browsers
directly.” The reason I haven’t done this step is that I
can't figure out how to register a helper app in Firefox. After a lot of
Googling etc, I’m still stuck.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The only clue (or not) I have to offer is that the file
“C:\Documents and Settings\Ken\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\uhpuzmf9.default\mimeTypes.rdf”, which
apparently is the operative Firefox configuration file, has these relevant (?)
entries:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/x-zope-edit"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:path="C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Dreamweaver.exe"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:prettyName="Dreamweaver.exe" /></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/x-zope-edit"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:alwaysAsk="false"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:saveToDisk="false"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:useSystemDefault="false"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:handleInternal="false"></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/x-zope-edit"/></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </RDF:Description></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:application/x-zope-edit"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:description=""</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:value="application/x-zope-edit"</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>
NC:editable="true"></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <NC:handlerProp RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/x-zope-edit"/></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </RDF:Description></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:application/x-zope-edit"/></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>~ TIA</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>~ Ken</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> </span></font></p>
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