Can Vbulletin's "Rich-Text Editor" save pasted images locally?

[PaulEscobar]

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

Let me make sure I understand this - you want to be able to have an image be uploaded when it is pasted into the WYSIWYG editor from anywhere yes?

If so, it's flat out impossible - for security reasons javascript cannot read image data from the clipboard of the host OS or read a file's contents without going through the browser's file input control. You must upload the image as a separate action, and no vendor can provide you otherwise unless they also rewrite your browser.

Note, this *might* be possible using ActiveX controls in IE, but ActiveX is the sourcepoint of 95% of IE's security flaws and it is highly recommended that you turn it off, leave it off or, better yet, don't use IE.

Sure, it's a stretch to get copy/paste from the hard drive.
I'd love that, for copying/pasting from Word etc.
But it's not neccessary.

Most of my discussion pieces exist on the net.
My discussion emails.
My own weblog articles and posts.
Those are all hosted on the net.
Same goes for my team-mates.

Microsoft's OneNote has a powertoy that can export NoteBooks as websites.
So I'd simply have to upload those to my site.
Once hosted, I could copy/paste whatever's relevant into Vbulletin.

So yes, I am still keen on this feature.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by PaulEscobar

Things get worse if I'm using the Vbulletin attachment feature.
I can't have my chart directly under the relevant paragraph.
Makes for hard reading.

Yes you can. You can insert attached images where ever you want in the post.

[PaulEscobar]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Yes you can. You can insert attached images where ever you want in the post.

Testing...
Attachment 75948
End Test.

Ah! I just tried out the attachment button option.
It works.

Unfortunately, it still doesn't help me.
If it was just a matter of a few images, I'd be up and running yesterday (with VB's default features).

My problem is migration.
I can't imagine repeating this manual upload/attachment process 87 times over, with at least 6 images for each go.

So it's still neccessary to have something as quick as paste/upload.
(Crossing my finger)

But thanks for pointing out that nifty feature!
If I ever do have a go with VB, it'll come in handy.

actually, what you require is not related to a script or a feature, it all depend on how the BROWSER manage the content... none of the browsers i know is permitting to copy/paste content from your hd...

so if you really need this, i would suggest you go to mozilla.org or microsoft.com and make a request there...

[PaulEscobar]

Originally Posted by nexialys

actually, what you require is not related to a script or a feature, it all depend on how the BROWSER manage the content... none of the browsers i know is permitting to copy/paste content from your hd...

so if you really need this, i would suggest you go to mozilla.org or microsoft.com and make a request there...

As I said, copy/paste from the HardDrive is NOT important.
Microsoft OneNote allows me to export my data as a website.
I would simply upload it to my site, then copy/paste/upload into Vbulletin (if the feature ever gets created).

My real problem is from already-hosted material.
Such as my email & weblogs.

The images do show up when I copy/paste into the Vbulletin Rich Text Editor.
The problem is that they're hotlinked from foreign sites.

My sites purpose would be to create a record of our discussions/brainstorms.
This would be troublesome with current Vbulletin.
Because as soon as the images lose their host, my posts lose their meaning.

[fariborz khan]

Originally Posted by PaulEscobar

As I said, copy/paste from the HardDrive is NOT important.
Microsoft OneNote allows me to export my data as a website.
I would simply upload it to my site, then copy/paste/upload into Vbulletin (if the feature ever gets created).

My real problem is from already-hosted material.
Such as my email & weblogs.

The images do show up when I copy/paste into the Vbulletin Rich Text Editor.
The problem is that they're hotlinked from foreign sites.

My sites purpose would be to create a record of our discussions/brainstorms.
This would be troublesome with current Vbulletin.
Because as soon as the images lose their host, my posts lose their meaning.

PaulEscobar , i need this ...please let me know how can vb team resolve this problem

thanks

[Dilmah]

vB team can't resolve the problem. As you have been told, only the browser can control this.

[PaulEscobar]

Originally Posted by Dilmah

vB team can't resolve the problem. As you have been told, only the browser can control this.

From what I've read in this topic, and the ".com" forum, it is possible.
Some people have stated that it may take a few lines of code.

Perhaps there was some confusion as to what needed to be uploaded.
Obviously, it might be impossible to upload files pasted from your hard drive.
But it shouldn't be impossible to convert pasted/hotlinked images into uploads.

I'd love to have a forum, especially one like VB.
But due to the migration of data involved, it would be pointless without such a feature.

actually, like i stated at first, you can easily convert links to be uploaded to the server, but only once you submit the post... can't be done by drag-drop... or you will have a god in ajax to make it so...

when the post is submited, you can have a hook that will detect all attached links and will upload them to the server the same way avatars are uploaded...

[PaulEscobar]

Originally Posted by nexialys

actually, like i stated at first, you can easily convert links to be uploaded to the server, but only once you submit the post... can't be done by drag-drop... or you will have a god in ajax to make it so...

when the post is submited, you can have a hook that will detect all attached links and will upload them to the server the same way avatars are uploaded...

Yes, this would be excellent!
I obviously don't care if it's done directly after paste, or after the post is submitted.
So long as it ends up being natively hosted.

Now, does this feature exist?
Or will there have to be some modification created?
Or will there need to be some code changed?

Because I'd like to purchase VB if this can be done.