Zide: The Zope IDE Experiment

What's this?

This is a demo and has been derived from The Zope management tree in RDF and XUL.

It shows the contents of a Zope installation in an 'explorer-like' view. Have a look.

What works?

Not much. The tree view in the left-pane is functional (expand/collapse) and linked to the contents view in the right-pane. The items in the tree on the left can be clicked on to display their contents on the right. The icons are native zope. That's about it.

No modification to the Zope installation is possible.

I want one too

Requirements:-

1. You need mozilla, obviously. I've tested with Milestone12.
2. Zope version 2.1.2
3. Martijn Pieters' Zope management tree in RDF and XUL. Not all four files are essential - only these two : itemRDF and tree.rdf

Unpack this file in the root of your Zope installation. It will plunk six files in the 'import' directory. Import all six into the root of your Zope installation. The files are : contents.rdf.zexp, itemiconcss.zexp, main.css.zexp, thisitemRDF.zexp, zide.js.zexp, and zide.xul.zexp

Use the following command to launch mozilla directly into 'zide mode':
mozilla -chrome http://my.zopesite.com/zide.xul
Alternatively, fire up mozilla and type 'http://my.zopesite.com/zide.xul' in the address box. It will ask for the username and password. Enjoy!

I can help you with any problems through the Zope-Mozilla mailing list.