[Zope-CMF] Question on Default Skins

[Carl Rendell]

On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 09:26  AM, alan runyan wrote:

>> 1. I saw the receipe using 'setupCurrentSkin' last week and couldn't
>>    get it working (http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1028172355).
>
> not sure about this

There is now an issue in the cmf collector that addresses this:

http://collector.zope.org/CMF/27

>
>> 2. The previously posted receipe manipulating '_v_skindata' 
>> didn't work
>>    either (http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1016693454).
>
> DANGER WILL ROBINSON!! DANGER!!
>
> touching _v_skindata is naughty and should not be done.
>
> http://cvs.zope.org/CMF/?only_with_tag=SkinApplyToSkinnable-branch
> look at Skinnable.py and SkinsContainer.py
>
> you can now change this in a access rule by changeSkin() method on the
> portal object
>
> shane is reviewing the changes for inclusion into HEAD.
>

Once the issue is resolved (use changeSkin() or use 
setupCurrentSkin(), I'll make corrections to the recipe.

Carl E. Rendell
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