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

Thu Oct 7 10:29:20 EDT 2004

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.

But I'm sure, a nice Guru on this list can explain it much better ;)

Tonico