[Zope-Annce] NeoBoard 1.1 alpha version released

[Wankyu Choi]

NeoBoard 1.1 alpha version released



    NeoBoard is a feature-rich threaded message board Zope product. The new version of NeoBoard comes with all the bells 

    and whistles you can wish for a message board^^



What's New?

 

    - NeoBoard now works with CMF and Plone. You can either use NeoBoard as a standalone Zope product or as CMF or Plone content object.

    

    - NeoBoard retains its (Plonish;-) look and feel no matter how you use it: NeoBoard's skin system is modeled after CMF. In fact, 

      it works exactly like CMF and it's no wonder NeoBoard skins are CMF/Plone compatible;-)



    - Inline comments can be added just like you would in Backtalk documents. NeoBoard's inline comments, however, are more like

      MS Words' annotations: you can choose whose comments to view; you can delete or modify your own comments just like you would normal

      articles.



    - NeoBoard wraps attachments in NeoBoardArticleAttachment objects which can save files either in ZODB or on the filesystem. 

      The NeoBoardArticleAttachment wrapper class works either like OFS.Image.File (or Image if the content is image) or like

      ExternalFileNG, which saves file content on the filesystem.

        

    - ExternalFileNG class is a reworked version of NeoBoard ExternalFile that combines the features of ExternalFile, ExtFile 

      and Zope's OFS.Image.File, while working like OFS.Image.File or OFS.Image.Image depending on the file content.

        

    - NeoBoard comes with its own catalog tool, again, modelded after CMF: NeoBoard Articles and Inline Comments are 

      NeoBoardCatalogAware: self-indexing and self-updating objects

        

    - MIME icons configurable by editing data/mime_icons.props



    - and many more...

    

NeoBoard 1.1a has been tested using the following combinations:



    - Bare Zope 2.5.1 and 2.6

    

    - Zope + CMF 1.3

    

    - Zope + CMF 1.3 + Plone Beta2

    

    - All of the above + BTreeFolder2/CMFBTreeFolder



    BTreeFolder product is not a must, but higly recommended for better performance.



Home



    http://www.neoboard.net

    

    

Downloads



    http://www.neoboard.net/Downloads



    

Screenshots



    http://www.neoboard.net/Screenshots    

    

Demo



    http://www.neoboard.net/Boards    



    

    

Note that 1.1a is a development version. Users of previous versions should not attempt to uprade to this version. That simply won't work.



Also note that I'm still new to Zope and Plone. You may find stupid bits of code here and there. Consider them as growing pains, and if you do find such stupidity, please educate me.

Sincerely,



Wankyu Choi