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+Epoz - a cross-browser-wysiwyg-editor for Zope
+
+ Epoz allows you to edit Zope-objects with a wysiwyg-editor. No
+ plugins are required. You only have to use a recent browser (IE >=
+ 5.5, Mozilla >= 1.3.1, Netscape >= 7.1, Firebird >= 0.7) that
+ supports Rich-Text-controls (called Midas for Mozilla).
+
+ Please read the CHANGES.txt before upgrading Epoz.
+
+ To use Epoz, simply install it into your Products-directory of your
+ Zope-Server and restart the server. If you want to get nice
+ formatted and xhtml-compatible html-code from Epoz, you should also
+ install "mxTidy":http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxTidy.html or
+ "uTidylib":http://utidylib.sourceforge.net on your server.
+
+ Documentation about Epoz for end-users is provided by Tom Purl (see
+ "EpozBook":http://zopewiki.org/EpozBook). Thanks Tom!
+
+ Epoz talks over XMLRPC to the Zope-Server to clean up the html-code.
+ After the processing of mxTidy, Epoz tries to call an additional hook
+ (EpozPostTidy) which can do postprocessings on the html-source.
+
+ If you want to use the EpozPostTidy-Hook for getting relative urls from
+ Epoz out of the box, create an External Method in the root of the ZMI or
+ your Plone-Site with id=EpozPostTidy, Module Name=Epoz.EpozPostTidy,
+ Function Name=EpozPostTidy.
+
+ If you want to use the EpozPostTidy-Hook for customized tasks, please
+ have a look at Epoz/Extensions/EpozPostTidy.py on how to build an
+ EpozPostTidy-hook. To use the EpozPostTidy-Hook for your
+ own applications, create an external method or a python-script with
+ id=EpozPostTidy in the root of your site, which expects three parameters
+ 'self' (=server context), 'html' (=only htmlbody) and 'pageurl' (=the "real" base
+ url of current page, use it to traverse the object, rewrite urls, etc.).
+ It should return a new html-body.
+
+ If you want to use Epoz with Plone use the CMFQuickInstaller or
+ create an External Method with id=Install in your Plone-Site.
+ Then edit the newly created External Method, set
+ Module Name = Epoz.Install, Function Name = install and
+ click on 'Test'. Now you can select Epoz as default editor in "your
+ preferences" of the Plone-Site. You can customize the widget
+ (uncomment elements you don't want to see) through customization
+ of portal_skins/epoz/epoz_script_widget.js. Epoz is shipped with a
+ default toolbox for Plone (icon with folder on it). You can insert links
+ (please highlight text before inserting a link) and images by
+ searching / navigating through your site and simply click
+ "Insert Link/Image".
+
+ If you want to use Epoz with native Zope applications, you have to
+ create a customized edit-script. Because there is no unique
+ interface for editing Zope-Objects, I did not include a
+ "manage_edit_all"-script for Epoz. You have to create it yourself!!!
+ To start working with Epoz, simply create a DTML-Method with
+ id=edit::
+
+ <dtml-var standard_html_header>
+ <dtml-if html>
+ <dtml-call "manage_edit('', content_type='text/html', filedata=_.str(html))">
+ </dtml-if>
+
+ <p><a href="<dtml-var URL1>">View Document</a></p>
+
+ <form action="<dtml-var URL>" method="post">
+ <dtml-var "Epoz('html:string', data=this().data,
+ toolbox='/toolbox',
+ lang='en',
+ style='width: 620px; height: 250px; border: 1px solid #000000;')">
+ <input type="submit" name="submit" value=" Save Changes " >
+ </form>
+ <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
+
+
+ Then create an empty File with id=test and point your
+ browser to http://yourServer/test/edit. That's all...:) Please note:
+ Epoz is a pure HTML-editor and can't edit any ZPT-or-DTML-Tags!
+
+ To create an Epoz-Rich-Text-Editor from your own
+ Products/Scripts/Methods/ZPT, you have to call it with one fixed and several
+ optional paramters::
+
+ Epoz(self, name, data='', toolbox='', lang='en',
+ path='', widget='',
+ style='width: 600px; height: 250px; border: 1px solid #000000;',
+ button='background-color: #EFEFEF; border: 1px solid #A0A0A0; cursor: pointer; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;',
+ css='', customcss='', charset='utf-8', pageurl=''):
+ """ Create an Epoz-Wysiwyg-Editor.
+
+ name : the name of the form-element which submits the data
+ data : the data to edit
+ toolbox : a link to a HTML-Page which delivers additional tools
+ lang: a code for the language-file (en,de,...)
+ path : path to Epoz-Javascript. Needed mainly for Plone (portal_url).
+ widget: You can specify a path to an alternative JavaScript for
+ epoz_script_widget.js
+ style : style-definition for the editor-area
+ button : style-definiton for buttons
+ css : url to a global css which should be used for rendering
+ content in editor-area
+ customcss : url to a customized css which should be used for rendering
+ content in editor-area
+ charset : charset which is edited in the editor-area
+ pageurl: the base-url for the edited page
+
+ If Epoz can't create a Rich-Text-Editor, a simple textarea is created.
+ """
+
+ Epoz is shipped with a very nice additional feature. Besides the
+ rich-text-controls you can set up a customized toolbox. This is
+ simply an URL which provides a popup-window with special functions.
+ To get the idea, create a DTML-Method with id=toolbox in your Zope-Root
+ and enter something like::
+
+ <html>
+ <head><title>Epoz-Toolbox</title></head>
+ <body onload="this.focus();">
+
+ <h1>Images</h1>
+
+ <dtml-in "PYTHONPATH.TO.IMAGES.objectValues(['Image'])">
+ <img src="<dtml-var absolute_url>"
+ border="0"
+ width="16"
+ height="16"
+ alt="<dtml-var title_or_id>"
+ style="cursor: pointer;"
+ onclick="window.opener.CreateImage('<dtml-var absolute_url>'); window.close();">
+ </dtml-in>
+
+ <hr />
+
+ <h1>Links</h1>
+
+ <dtml-tree "PYTHONPATH.TO.CONTENT" branches_expr="objectValues(['Folder','File'])" nowrap=1>
+ <a href="#"
+ style="cursor: pointer;"
+ onclick="window.opener.CreateLink('<dtml-var absolute_url>'); window.close();" ><dtml-var title_or_id></a>
+ </dtml-tree>
+
+ </body>
+ </html>
+
+ Now you can click onto the little icon with the folder on it and get a
+ popup, which provides images (simply click) and links (select text in
+ Epoz-window, then click onto link).
+
+ If you want to translate Epoz into your own language, have a look at
+ skins/epoz_lang_en.js.dtml. It would be nice if you want to share
+ your translation with me.
+
+ I hope you'll enjoy Epoz. For me Epoz is the missing link to Zope.
+ If you consider using Epoz, please write me a short mail about your
+ use-case.
+
+ Bug-reports & patches are welcome. Please send them to:
+ maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de
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