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icon5.gif   Any way to paste clipboard into entry?, posted by Erik Iverson on Thu Jan 7 21:41:43 2010 
    icon2.gif   Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jan 11 10:41:25 2010 
       icon2.gif   Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?, posted by Erik Iverson on Mon Jan 11 16:44:23 2010 
          icon2.gif   Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Jan 11 16:46:39 2010 
             icon2.gif   Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?, posted by David Pilgram on Mon Jan 11 17:10:31 2010 
Message ID: 66667     Entry time: Mon Jan 11 16:44:23 2010     In reply to: 66666     Reply to this: 66668
Icon: Reply  Author: Erik Iverson  Author Email: eiverson@ornl.gov 
Category: Question  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.7.8 
Subject: Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry? 
> > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > already onscreen.
> 
> This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> 
> http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> 
> for example.

Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  
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