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Copy and paste picture.

ProsperProsper ✭✭
edited March 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Is there a way to copy and paste picture on Vanilla Forum other than inserting with FileUpload plugin?

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  • mattmatt ✭✭
    Answer ✓

    There isn't any way, and for good reason.

    Copy and pasting an image would be working on raw data and raw image data takes up a lot of space/memory. Working with PNG or JPG is compressed image data, a much better idea.

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  • ProsperProsper ✭✭

    Any answer on this please?

  • mattmatt ✭✭
    Answer ✓

    There isn't any way, and for good reason.

    Copy and pasting an image would be working on raw data and raw image data takes up a lot of space/memory. Working with PNG or JPG is compressed image data, a much better idea.

  • ProsperProsper ✭✭

    Thank you for your comment.
    I wish there will be a plug-in for forum members to add and show their pictures on the forum just like on facebook.

  • arion-parion-p New

    I know this is an old thread. I would like to point out that Discourse can do this, so it IS possible.
    The question now is if anyone has the knowledge and would be willing to write a plugin

  • BleistivtBleistivt Moderator

    @arion-p said:
    I know this is an old thread. I would like to point out that Discourse can do this, so it IS possible.
    The question now is if anyone has the knowledge and would be willing to write a plugin

    And I would like to point out that vanilla can do this too. You can just drag & drop an image into the new editor, try it out here.

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  • arion-parion-p New

    I didn't know that. In my installation it doesn't work, so I guess I have to update/install some plugin (or is it part of the main installation?).

    However what I mean is really use paste to attach an image. For example in my forum I have a bug report section. Users there post bug reports and want to attach screen-shots to show the issue/bug. In Discourse they would just Alt-PrintScreen and Paste into the forum. With Vanilla they have to Alt-PrintScreen, open an image editor (e.g. MS Paint) Paste, Save, open explorer, search for the file, drag and drop it into the discussion.

    That is not what I call user friendly and I can certainly not convince them to go though all that just to post an image. As a result I either get bug reports without the required screen-shots or get the bug report in email (with all the downsides of email).

    PS: I don't use Discourse, I use Vanilla. But I see a feature I like in Discourse and I don't see a reason why Vanilla cannot have that feature too. It just needs someone to implement it (I would if I had enough PHP knowledge)

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    @arion-p The short answer is there is no easy way to do this in a cross-browser way.

    The best library I found that is cross-browser is this: https://github.com/layerssss/paste.js/ and it is only IE11+, Firefox 33+, and Chrome 38+.

    I mean, I will book mark it for later development, but I would be more interested in extending the advanced editor that is dropping in 2.2

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  • arion-parion-p New

    Fair enough. As far as I know it is not possible in IE10 anyway, so I think that would be OK.
    Ofc priorities have to observed.

    btw :+1: on the research.

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