[Zope3-dev] Re: Question about skins (standard_macros)

Thu Oct 7 08:46:45 EDT 2004

Tonico Strasser schrieb:

> Florian Lindner wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I've  questions about developing skins:
>>
>> In chapter 24 of Stephens Zope book he refers to <html 
>> metal:use-macro="views/standard_macros/page">. Where does this 
>> standard_macros come from? In the chapter only a skin_macros and 
>> dialog_macros are registered.  I think it got sometthing to do with 
>> zope.app.basicskin.standardmacros.StandardMacros but I can't really 
>> figure out how...
>
>
> The standard_macros seems to be configured in 'configure.zcml'
>
>  <browser:page
>       for="*"
>       name="standard_macros"
>       permission="zope.View"
>       class=".standardmacros.StandardMacros"
>       layer="rotterdam"
>       allowed_interface="zope.interface.common.mapping.IItemMapping"
>       />
>
> This is from 'standardmacros.py':
>
>     macro_pages = ('skin_macros', 'view_macros', 'dialog_macros',
>                    'navigation_macros')
>
> Another excerpt from 'configure.czml':
>
>   <browser:page
>       for="*"
>       name="skin_macros"
>       permission="zope.View"
>       layer="rotterdam"
>       template="template.pt"
>       />
>
> And here is the 'page' macro in 'template.pt':
>
>   <metal:block define-macro="page">
>
> From my understanding, 'standard_macros' is a name that holds macros 
> defined in 'standardmacros.py'. The names in the 'macro_pages' tuple 
> are configured in 'configure.zcml'. I might be wrong, though.
>

I already thought something like that. But how does Zope knows which 
macros out of the macro_pages to pick?

Florian