[Zope3-Users] Found a (perhaps obvious) page template speedup

[Marco Mariani]

Chris Withers wrote:

> The ZMI has a lot of widgets that people should want to re-use 
> (generically: tree controls, file widgets, directory listings, etc, 
> specifically: forms and configuration for the "generic" parts of zope)
>
> It sounds like you're advocating writing every bit of UI from scratch, 
> as you have to in Zope 2 due to the hard-coded nature of the ZMI, but 
> I'm hoping I'm mistaken...
>
> Am I?

Widgets are in zope.app.form.browser, and those can be use independently 
of ZMI
Forms are in zope.formlib (or zope.app.form), again independent of ZMI

Want menus? Again, they are *used* by ZMI but you can define your own 
with the same machinery..