Hi Dan,
> In order to paste an image from the clipboard, you'll need something that > can also upload the image to the server on the paste operation. Absolutly. Cheers for suggestion - I'll have a look at XStandard; sounds like it'l fit the bill. This is for an app, not a web site, so the users would be happy to use Firefox if it gave them this fucitonality (plus I can't get it to work in IE yet anyway :-) ) Cheers, Steve On Sep 18, 3:03 pm, "G. Switzer, II" <dswit...@pengoworks.com> wrote: > It's been a while since I've looked at either TinyMCE or FCKEditor (now > CKEditor) but non of the WYSIWYG editors based on the browser can do what > Hogsmill wants. > In order to paste an image from the clipboard, you'll need something that > can also upload the image to the server on the paste operation. > > The product I've used in the past to accomplish this is XStandard--which > comes as either a Firefox add-on and an ActiveX control for IE. It does > require an client installation, but it's a very powerful XHTML-based editor > and works really well for us. > > The images are uploaded to the server via a web service on the paste > operation--it even handles multiple images in the clipboard. We choose > XStandard, because users could copy an entire Word document into the > clipboard with multiple images and simply paste it into the XStandard editor > and the content would get pasted complete with all the images in the Word > document. > > There are some Java-based rich text editor controls I found too, but they > were all much more expensive. > > Also, if you *only* care about pasting a single image (and don't really need > the whole rich text portion) you could write a signed Java applet to do > this. For our help desk application, I wrote a signed Java applet that would > either take the screenshot for the user or allow pasting an image from the > clipboard to add as an attachment. I can't share the code, but it's > relatively straightforward (the biggest issue is handling clipboard > operations on the Mac.) > > -Dan > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Peter Edwards <p...@bjorsq.net> wrote: > > > Have you thought of using a rich text editor to do this such as > > TinyMCE and FCKEditor - they both have paste from clipboard > > functionality > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Hogsmill <i...@hogsmill.com> wrote: > > > > This may or may not be possible, but if anyone knows a way to do it, > > > I'd love to hear from you. > > > > Basically, I simply (?) want to copy an image (e.g. from ALT-Print > > > Screen or 'Copy Image'), and paste/drop it into an img tag on a page > > > so it appears on the page. I can then resize, drag-drop, etc. as > > > required. > > > > I've had a rummage around the net, but can't find anything. Maybe it's > > > impossible? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Steve- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
