TW5: Copy and paste images directly from clipboard

[Caleb]

Are there any plans to allow simple copy and paste of images directly from the clipboard into TW5 tiddlers (i.e. using Ctrl+V)? I am guessing this is going to become more and more common in wikis, now that it is technically possible (for example, the commercial wiki Confluence allows it).

[PMario]

On Friday, February 14, 2014 5:18:52 PM UTC+1, Caleb wrote:

Are there any plans to allow simple copy and paste of images directly from the clipboard into TW5 tiddlers (i.e. using Ctrl+V)? I am guessing this is going to become more and more common in wikis, now that it is technically possible (for example, the commercial wiki Confluence allows it).

Hi Caleb
How do you get your image into the clipbord?

File drag and drop from a file manager is allready possible.

-m

[Caleb]

File drag and drop is very nice, but not always convenient in cases where you don't physically have the file already.

There are two primary ways I get images to the clipboard:

1. Screen capture
2. Copying images from other web pages

Both of these activities are very common at my job (data analysis, where we grab screen captures of plots, or images from status monitoring web pages). Sometimes I want to document several images in rapid succession, and screen capture makes this easy to do. Others in my group use OneNote to record such images. I tend to prefer Tiddlywiki for organization, but the lack of quick pasting of images limits its utility for me

I don't know much about the technology that powers TW5, or if this is implementable. You can do this sort of copy and paste into GMail though, as well as in Confluence, so it is possible in principal.

I tried to paste an image into this post here to prove that it was possible, but ironically it got corrupted when I clicked on post :-).

[Jeremy Ruston]

The underlying trouble is that browser support for the HTML5 clipboard API is patchy and frequently unreliable:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard

Apps like Gmail and probably Confluence go to a lot of messy workarounds to make pasting work in browsers like Safari.

The only browser that was working properly when I wrote the code for handling pastes was Chrome. It turns out that at some point I introduced a bug that has prevented it from working for a couple of releases. I'll fix it for 5.0.8.

Even in Chrome, the paste support is very patchy. If I copy an image from OS X Finder and paste it, then I actually get an image of the file icon. Opening the image in the preview app and copying the image itself to the clipboard (rather than the file) does work as expected.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Alex Sitnik]

Hi Jeremy,

Were there any kind of success towards resolving of this particular matter (Caleb's request)?

I do as well use a lot of images in research and data analysis and I find TW a quite suitable tool to save data for my own future reference.

However, the lack of an ability to directly paste an image from clipboard into a currently editing TW element's ("tiddler"'s) editing position is a quite limiting one.

Confluence, Trello and some other collaboration tools allow that, however these are all cloud-based and I do most of the work offline during telecommute and while on the road, so TiddlyWiki suits me perfectly fine.

If that would require some kind of a cost or a "corporate" version release, please let me know where should I place my pre-order payment or just buy it directly, if by any chance it has already been developed since your reply dated 14th Feb 2014.

Or otherwise a piece of advise would be helpful in order to outsource the development of such a feature elsewhere (a direction from where to start the digging in).

Thank you in advance for your professional reply and wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

With best regards,

Alex S.

[Mohamed Amin]

Hello Jeremy,

I'm new to DiddlyWiki (currently a user of OneNote), one of the main process in my daily work is taking a screenshot to create a documentation (OneNote is very good at that), I'm trying to do the same in TiddlyWiki (to benefit of its amazing nonlinear features), so is this feature working now? Is there any plugin for that?

Thanks in Advance

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[Mark S.]

You're responding to a thread that is nearly five years old ;-)

In Firefox, I can right-click on an image and select "Copy image". Then I go to the TiddlyWiki file and Ctr-V. It opens up a dialog box offering to import the image. Import the image. After that you may want to change the title of the image.

If you need to use the image inside of another tiddler, you can transclude it like {{myimage.png}} (assuming you left it with a .png in the name, which you don't have to do).

Firefox currently comes with a tool for taking screenshots. You use the tool and then click on the copy icon (two rectangles superimposed on each other). The FF screenshot tool was a little controversial because some people said that other people didn't understand that clicking on the big blue cloud with an up arrow meant that the content was going to a server. For me, it's a very handy tool.

-- Mark

[A Gloom]

In Firefox, I can right-click on an image and select "Copy image". Then I go to the TiddlyWiki file and Ctr-V. It opens up a dialog box offering to import the image. Import the image. After that you may want to change the title of the image.

What Mark means by that is the import window that gets activated will show "image.png" awaiting to be imported-- that will be your clipboard contents.

EDIT: the import file name will be a generic name

Also wotks for text contrnt in clipboard.

[Mohamed Amin]

Thanks a lot Mark and A Gloom for your reply, I can do it now (a little different than what I used to do, but TW5 deserve that I change my habits :) )

[A Gloom]

Glad to help.  As has been pointed out, using copy/paste & screenshots is a very common practice, so you bringing this up made me realize this is info I need to include in my guide for using external web content with TW for users of the custom TW's I created.  I really need to update the tentative guide I posted here on the group.