Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

Tino Wildenhain tino@wildenhain.de
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:35:11 +0200


Hm. Wizard?

if there are always many objects to create, may be it would be
better to have a generic mechanism for asking users and
represent app-/management interfaces rather then copying all
the stuff over and over?

Regards
Tino

--On Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2001 08:54 -0500 Stephan Richter <srichter@cbu.edu> 
wrote:

>
>> So what does it do?  :)
>
> It is a general Wizard Builder with which you could build a Wizard that
> asks for all the necessary information to auto-generate a Python Product
> (for example).
>
>> What I'm thinking is this: maybe use SmartWizard to meta-program you
>> Python Product; that creates a definition file(s) of some sort which is
>> sent to mk-zprod; mk-zprod consults the WarpFramework do make sure we
>> don't create too much work for ourselves, and also provides us with nice
>> default HTML/DTML-pages, and finally, Formulator could be used to do
>> validation on those HTML/DTML-pages.
>
> Exactly that. But the SmartWizard would provide you with a framework to
> build this "Make New Python Product Wizard". If I get far enough, I will
> release the pre alpha today, just you see the proof of concept...
>
>> Or are we talking past eachother here?
>
> Nope, we don't. But SmartWizard is a more general tool than you were
> thinking of it.
>
>> It would be very cool to have a tool like that.
>
> I agree. It is annoying to code all that stuff all the time.
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
>
> --
> Stephan Richter
> CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
> Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management
>
>
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