Community Suggestion: Paste an image from clipboard into Text Boxes

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Paste an image from clipboard into Text Boxes

Feature Upgrade · Images & image management · Created by R0GUE01
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

  Currently you have to add an image through the uploader which is a bit tedious especially if you are just trying to add an image that is just a quick snip or screengrab of your vtt page or a map you've created in TaleSpire, just as examples. I think the image uploader is great for when you want to do mass uploads, but it would be so much nicer to just be able to copy paste an image from your clipboard if you often use screengrabs or the snipping tool.   How does this feature request address the current situation?   My request would be to allow you to paste an image from your clipboard directly into a text-box. It would address the situation by removing several time-consuming steps from adding an image when the image happens to just be a screen capture.

What are other uses for this feature request?

  I don't know what the technical challenges or hurdles of this request are, but it would also be a nice touch if that pasting the image into the box, then saving, would also add the image into your uploaded images as well. Thus an added feature would be to make it a quick way to upload a lot of images at once, without leaving your article page.

The Team's Response

There is already an extremely easy way to upload images and add them to an article while you write the article :)   Click on the big + button and then the blue option, "dragon-drop" drag'n'drop) it and click the save image button - then you can use it wherever you want on the article!
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Current score

39/300 Votes · +5410 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by scottc1226
    on 2021-12-25 20:53

  • +10

    by Todd Cain
    on 2021-12-24 02:56

  • +300

    by Pantong51
    on 2021-12-23 20:51

  • +300

    by got_lost_send_help
    on 2021-12-23 05:27

  • +100

    by RandomD&DNerd
    on 2021-12-23 03:26

  • +300

    by Asdradan
    on 2021-12-20 18:04

  • +50

    by Dr.Scholar
    on 2021-12-19 13:29

  • +10

    by CassieYorke
    on 2021-12-19 03:53

  • +100

    by CristalViper
    on 2021-12-17 23:16

  • -300

    by A Thundering Dryad
    on 2021-12-17 15:52
    As others have stated, the image upload system is there for a reason.

  • +20

    by JessSpence20
    on 2021-12-17 11:57

  • +100

    by nightravendm1
    on 2021-12-16 15:01

  • -100

    by Virusbomb
    on 2021-12-14 03:18

  • -300

    by A Beloved Devil
    on 2021-12-12 20:55
    I'm not even sure what the technical implications of this request are, as the image needs to be uploaded somewhere to be shown. Your final idea of having it automatically upload into the images is more of a requirement I'd think. But as an artist, please no. Stealing my art would be so much easier and the current way of having to credit the artist and going through these steps makes WA a better place when it comes to copyright and the like.

  • +10

    by tmwicker
    on 2021-12-11 12:23

  • +300

    by A Mischievous Devil
    on 2021-12-11 01:24

  • -300

    by kalvorp
    on 2021-12-10 20:33
    I think a big reason why the image gallery is so important is because it prompts for attribution/credit, as well as allowing images to be sorted into folders.   Being able to add screen captures would make art theft significantly easier to execute, and it also would make it more difficult to keep track of images, especially for accounts that have limitations on image uploads or in regards to file size.

  • +200

    by A Sneaky Kitten
    on 2021-12-10 17:08

  • +200

    by JDwol
    on 2021-12-08 23:21

  • +100

    by Ryder1478
    on 2021-12-08 23:12

  • +200

    by QuintaviusGM
    on 2021-12-08 18:34

  • +300

    by JpgPngExe
    on 2021-12-08 11:39

  • +300

    by ABirdNamedWill
    on 2021-12-08 07:20

  • +300

    by Tobus
    on 2021-12-08 03:44

  • +300

    by SicariusRex
    on 2021-12-08 02:25

  • +300

    by Vastus
    on 2021-12-07 20:37

  • +100

    by A Uncontrollable Skeleton
    on 2021-12-07 16:00

  • +300

    by Pogorelsky
    on 2021-12-07 15:31

  • +300

    by Makoto Ichijoji
    on 2021-12-07 13:34

  • +50

    by consolecowboy
    on 2021-12-06 22:40

  • +300

    by A Beloved T-Rex
    on 2021-12-06 21:35

  • +100

    by Tijmuhn
    on 2021-12-06 20:27

  • +10

    by A Revolutionary Bananafolk
    on 2021-12-06 13:40

  • +300

    by A Revolutionary Kobold
    on 2021-12-06 12:47

  • +50

    by Toadfish
    on 2021-12-06 12:45

  • +300

    by Briskir
    on 2021-12-06 12:15

  • -300

    by A Cute Hobbit
    on 2021-12-05 21:46
    I feel like we already have this

  • +300

    by Ben Mobley
    on 2021-12-05 15:52

  • +200

    by zla2066
    on 2021-12-05 15:32
    yes include this.

  • +300

    by R0GUE01
    on 2021-12-05 04:28
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