This looks interesting and useful, thanks Thomas. I confess I rarely/never
use Leo with images, I really should experiment a little.
Recently I have been using Obsidian as a note-taking app (Joplin is
similar). Neither are as capable as Leo, in many ways, but they have their
niceties.
One that is handy when note-taking is the ability to paste *from the
clipboard*. You can setup an area (directory0 in an Obsidian 'vault' - then
'paste from clipboard' will
(a) create a unique filename within the image directory, and put the
clipboard contents in there as eg. a .png file
(b) add a (markdown) reference to the new image in the 'note' that you are
in.
It'd be nice to have something similar in Leo... ;-)
Regards, Jon N
On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 7:04:19 PM UTC tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
> We can't directly insert an image into a standard Leo node because they
> are text-only. I find this very annoying sometimes, especially when I am
> writing a note and want to include an image.
>
> But we can do the next best thing - insert an ReStructuredText (RsT)
> instruction to display an image so that we can view it with the
> viewrendered3 plugin (VR3). The instruction is short and easy, but it's
> still annoying to type and I usually forget the exact details. I have a
> button that toggles VR3 on and off so that it's easy to view an embedded
> image once the RsT instruction is there. An embedding command would make
> embedding with Leo as easy as embedding an image in a word processor.
> Aha, this is Leo, let's write a script!
>
> Here is a script that pops up a file dialog and inserts a relative path to
> the chosen file. There are several small variations which I discuss after
> the code.
>
> """Insert RsT code at cursor to display an image.
>
> The path to the image file will come from a file dialog.
> This action is undoable.
> """
> PATH = g.app.gui.runOpenFileDialog(c,
> title="Import File",
> filetypes=[("All files", "*"),],
> defaultextension=".*",
> multiple=False)
>
> if PATH:
> from os.path import relpath
> PATH = relpath(PATH)
> PATH = PATH.replace('\\', '/').replace('"', '').replace("'", '')
> IMAGE_TEMPLATE = f'''
>
> .. figure:: {PATH}
> :scale: 50%
>
> '''
> w = c.frame.body.wrapper
> p = c.p
> s = p.b
> u = c.undoer
>
> start, _ = w.getSelectionRange()
>
> undoType = 'insert-rst-image-code'
> undoData = u.beforeChangeNodeContents(p)
>
> head, tail = s[:start], s[start:]
> p.b = head + IMAGE_TEMPLATE + tail
>
> c.setChanged()
> p.setDirty()
> u.afterChangeNodeContents(p, undoType, undoData)
> c.redraw()
>
> Variations:
> 1. If you want an absolute path instead of a relative path, delete the
> lines
> from os.path import relpath
> PATH = relpath(PATH)
> with
>
> 2. If you want to get the path from the clipboard instead of a file
> dialog, replace the lines
>
> PATH = g.app.gui.runOpenFileDialog(c,
> title="Import File",
> filetypes=[("All files", "*"),],
> defaultextension=".*",
> multiple=False)
>
> with the line
>
> PATH = g.app.gui.getTextFromClipboard()
>
> 3. If you want the embedded image to be full width instead of 50%, delete
> the line
>
> :scale: 50%
>
> 4. You can make this work with Markdown or Asciidoc by using their
> embedding instruction in the TEMPLATE instead of the RsT one.
>
> I have added the command to my own local menu. VR3 can open in a tab in
> the log pane; the command for toggling in a tab is *vr3-toggle-tab. * I
> usually like opening it in the log pane instead of in its own separate pane.
>
> If you would like to create a local menu of your own and don't know how,
> it's easy. Just ask and I'll show what to add to myLeoSettings,leo.
>
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