[Zope-PTK] CMF some basic Q

[Bill Anderson]

On 15 Mar 2001 13:34:04 -0500, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> On 3/15/01 2:54 AM, "Bill Anderson" <bill@libc.org> wrote:
> 
> > On a related note, is there any way short of a restart of Zoe to refresh
> > the filesystem non-customized stylesheets?
> > 
> > The ones provided don't expose enough (select a black background and
> > tell me how well your h[1-n] tags come out, for example ;) , and while
> > building a new one, it sucks to have to restart my zope server to see
> > the effect of moving a margin or two...
> > 
> > Bill
> 
> Why are you modifying the ones on the file system instead of through the web
> in custom folders?  Whenever I'm doing any experimenting in skins, even in
> something planned to go into the core distribution, I always do it in a
> custom folder so I can see the effects quickly.  If it's something meant to
> go into a distribution, I'll copy my changes to the file system after I've
> tested them this way.


Cuz you can't _just_ modify the few options provided, that's why. Much
stuff is still hard-coded, and not accessible in the TTW customize
option.  For example, the color of your the header tags is black.
Period. Looking at the stylesheet from the FS, you can see it is
hard-coded, by not providing an variable to be substituted. No variable,
no TTW customization.

A few other things are needed occasionally, such as changing padding
sizes, or margins. None of these are available TTW. Sure, I can change
those and make variable for them, but that is -still- changing the file,
and not using a customized instance TTW. It would still require a
restart.

Bill Anderson

(BTW, I had a HD failure a month or so ago, and no longer have my old
ssh key that DC has for PTK(CMF) checkins, who do I need to send a new
one to again, anybody know?)