[Zope] anybody written a "tab folder"/<dtml-tab> feature?

[Albert Ting]

Yes, that's what I'm looking for.  Will take a look at manage_options
features, guess I can create a simple python method. 

Thanks!
Albert

Mark James Adams writes:
> From: Mark James Adams <mark@raysend.com>
> To: zope@zope.org
> Cc: mail@peterbe.com, alt@sonic.net
> Subject: Re: [Zope] anybody written a "tab folder"/<dtml-tab> feature?
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:59:30 -0400
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 05:30 AM, "Peter Bengtsson" 
> <mail@peterbe.com> wrote:
> 
> > the ZMI doesn't have a tab called "widget". Not in any of the 2.2.x or 
> > 2.3.x
> > or 2.4.x
> > Or in other words, I've never seen one.
> >
> >> The zope management interface has a nice tab folder "widget".  Sure 
> >> would
> >> be nice if there was a <dtml-tab>
> >
> > What would a <dtml-tab> do?
> > Writing DTML tags is easy if you search for the How-Tos on it and 
> > there's
> > plenty of examples to download and follow.
> >
> 
> I believe Albert is thinking of the management tabs in general. By 
> widget he means a general method of making such an interface feature.
> 
> The management tabs are generated from the manage_options tuple that is 
> defined in Python ZClasses (they are done automatically in ZClasses made 
> in the ZMI though the View tab).
> 
> For example, in one of my Python classes:
> 
> manage_options = (
>		   {'label': 'Meta', 'action': 'manage_metaInfoEditForm'},
>			     {'label': 'View', 'action': 'index_html'},
>			     )
> 
> If I call <dtml-var manage_tabs> in one of my management screen, then 
> the contents of mange_options will be rendered as tabs. I don't know if 
> there is any way to use <dtml-var manage_tabs> outside of the management 
> screens. Obviously manage_tabs only needs a tuple of dictionaries to 
> render the tabs, so there may be a way to make it render an arbitrary 
> tuple, not just manage_options.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
>