Insert a picture into the forum message body

[paulmw]

How can I insert quick VI examples into my posts and have them visible in the message body without someone having to open the attachment to see what I have posted.  I have seen this a lot and I always just using the attachment option only.

[tst]

1. Attach the file.
2. Post the message.
3. Copy the URL to the attachment (in IE, right click on it and select Copy Shortcut).
4. Edit the post (from the Options drop down available on the right side of the post).
5. Click the button in the editor and paste the URL to your attachment.
6. Submit the edited post.

You can do this without editing, but you need to figure out the post number first. This has been explained elsewhere on this board.

[becktho]

Hi

What you want to do is pretty simple and needs just a few steps.

1. Write your message and attach the picture

2. submit the message

3. open the picture in another browser

4. copy the url of the picture, which you can get from the other browser, to the clipboard

5. edit the message (on the right side of the messag in the thread are message options available), but you have to do this in a special time

5. Click the "Insert an Image" button

6. paste the url of the picture

That's it  - just have a try.

[paulmw]

Ok,  I'll give this a try here.  Posting a test message with and attached picture.

Cool, it worked! thanks

Message Edited by paulmw on 10-20-2006 08:25 AM

[paulmw]

Another test...

Hey, this image was inserted directly without the use of edit message!  I used the insert image option and pasted the file path on my hard drive to the picture I wanted to insert.  So, I guess I can skip that step. 

[becktho]

If you put in the local path on your hard drive, the browser tries to open it from this local path - also on my pc and on the pc of everybody else. As I don't have this picture file in the specified directory, the browser can not load it.

Message Edited by becktho on 10-20-2006 03:43 PM

[paulmw]

Yep, I deleted the file and it is a broken link now.  Didn't think of that, thanks. 

[tst]

If you want to embed code fragments, you might want to check out this tool. It even copies the path to the file to the clipboard, so that you can immediately paste it in the browse field.

[RavensFan]

Hi,

I am wondering if there could be an easier way to embed images, without going through an edit process, and trying to get a copy of the link to the image.  It would require a change to the editor.

Supposed another button was added for embed picture, and it would also put a copy of that image in the attachment list.  Since a message number doesn't get assigned until after the message is posted, the image link is created with a dummy tag (and not the local filename as it exists on your computer like the current embed image button.)

Once the web server, gets the message, accepts it and assigns a message number, it would automatically swap out the dummy tag for the new server based tag.

For example, I want to embed c:\testimage.png.  The new special button would let me select the file and also attach it as attachment #1.  It would create a link that instead of being c:\testimage.png would be http://    forums.ni.com/attachments/ni/BreakPoint/placeholder/1/testimage.png   (note: I put spaces in after http: because I didn't want this converted to a hyperlink in this message.

Once the message is actually posted and the actual message number gets assigned, the web server would swap out "placeholder" with the actual message number.

I think this would greatly ease posting pictures, wouldn't require editing, and reduce the risks of the edit time running out before the user has a chance to get all of the links edited.

[Ben]

I agree with Ravens fan. This makes quality posting a real chore.

The other thing that would help is if it was easier to put in those (hyperlinks?) strings that when you click on them takes you to a new URL.

Posting Nuggets with images and links to other references is TOO HARD!

tst, Christian et al,

Y'all use those hyperlink (?) things all of the time. What have I been missing?

Another addition I would like to to be able to put hyperlinks in that reference text further down in the article I am posting. I'd like to use those for the foot notes.

Ben