How to copy and paste images from clipboard

I am working on FCK editor (in Inernet Explorer 6) using Java and Jsp.
I am not able to copy(using Alt+Print Scrn) and paste(Ctrl+V) clipboard images.
When I try to do so I am getting a "Paste-Web Page dialog" window with the following message.
"Because of your browser settings the editor is not able to access the clipboard data directly. You are required to paste it again in this window."
But still i am not able to paste it in the new window also.
Can this be done using the editor ?
If so ,should i do any changes in the configuratuion files?

Thanks

Tue, 10/16/2007 - 05:28

martinkou

Joined: 02/08/2007

Posts: 47

Re: How to copy and paste images from clipboard

Pasting an image from print screen is not possible now or in the foreseeable future, unfortunately.

While it is possible to paste images from other web pages into FCKeditor, this is done by copying the <img src=...> tag to the editor document. When you're pasting actual binary images to FCKeditor, there are two major problems:

There is no URI or file system path with which FCKeditor can create an <img src=...> tag into the HTML code.

There is currently no way for FCKeditor to access the raw binary data of the image from the clipboard, and even if there's one... you wouldn't like it, for reasons in the next point.

Image processing in JavaScript is horrendously slow, and the resulting HTML would be ugly and not viewable under some browsers (e.g. decoding binary data from the data: URI scheme is not supported by IE).

Mon, 06/09/2008 - 06:42

anilva

Joined: 09/06/2008

Posts: 1

Re: How to copy and paste images from clipboard

Is this a permanently closed case or any point in looking at this again?

Fri, 06/20/2008 - 07:01

cornice

Joined: 11/05/2008

Posts: 1

Re: How to copy and paste images from clipboard

I noticed a while back when playing around with TiddlyWiki that I could open an HTML file (TiddlyWiki) from the local file system, paste an image from the clipboard into FCKEditor and then save the page. The result was an image tag that links to a file named something like:

file:///C:/DOCUME~1/SP/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-11.jpg

This worked nicely but I couldn't figure out how to change the default location for the files (to put on a thumb drive). Now what I'm wondering is whether there might be some way to trick Firefox and FCKEditor into uploading the image. I suspect that Firefox allows this access to the local file system only when editing local files but I'm not sure. Still it would be quite useful to be able to paste images into a page and then either auto-upload the images to a server (DekiWiki is the server platform that I have in mind at the moment) or at least work through a file upload dialog that points to the temp files that Firefox created.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thank you.