Suggestion - Paste image directly from the clipboard

You can't find it in any javascript WYSIWYG editor because it's not possible to do it .

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It's not impossible... I've done it using another WYSIWYG editor (OpenWYSIWYG), but I'm sure it can be done with FCKEditor as well.

The only caveat is it's not entirely automated, but it's close enough that the users don't mind.

Here's how:

When a user pastes anything into the WYSIWYG box (detected by JavaScript), the editor scans the HTML and looks to see if there are any "FILE:\\" .JPG, .GIF, or other image-type links.

If it finds one, it pops up a dialog box saying "Pasted Image detected - you must upload to the server". The box also includes an HTML File Upload box (which feeds a back-end ASP Image Uploader), and the URL to the image "FILE:\\C:......" in text, just above the box. The instructions say "select the following text", then have a big blue arrow, then "Paste it here:" and the Upload box appears. Then there is another big blue arrow and the instructions "Then Press OK". We can't automatically put the image local URL into the upload box due to browser security features, but we CAN check to see if they copied and pasted the URL correctly.... and throw an error if not. This process automatically repeats for all the images detected in the WYSIWYG window.

All of the above sounds fairly kludgy, but once you use it a couple times, it becomes very quick... just double click the URL, right-click-paste the dialog, OK, wash, rinse, repeat. My users find it quite simple and a very useful feature.

One thing that limits this feature a lot is that it is not possible to sniff the clipboard contents with all browsers. This is doable with IE only.

In any case, this can be quite useful in a controlled environment. You may think on developing a plugin for it as soon as V3 comes out on beta.

Interesting, my company is standardized on IE so I didn't realize that was unsupported in other browsers, but I'll keep that in mind.

On a side note, we did look at FCKEditor about a year ago but choose to implement OpenWYSIWYG for several reasons, including the naming of FCKEditor. However once 3.x comes out, I'll definately be looking at re-implementing using CKEditor, and at that time I'll look at developing a plugin.

Hi,

We're also very interested about this feature... Is there any news here? Maybe we could help...

Paulo Alvim
Powerlogic - Brazil