The way I have been using the Obsidian feature is to paste image bytes (eg.
from a screen region capture). So Obsidian saves a file:
/path/to/attachments/
Pasted image 20240228230106.png
Where /path/to/attachments is an Obsidian setting, and the name of the file
is clearly a timestamp.
Obsidian only uses markdown, so it inserts
![[Pasted image 20240228230106.png]]
into the 'node being edited'
I think you can also drag and drop files into a 'node'.
There would clearly have to be some work to make this generally useful in a
Leo context...
On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 7:35:15 PM UTC tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
> Shouldn't be hard. What would be on the clipboard? Image bytes? Or an
> image filename? I often select an image in a file manager window, copy it
> to an "images" subdirectory of the current outline, then write the
> embedding code into and "images" child node. That would be easy to write a
> script for.
>
> On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2:14:41 PM UTC-5 jkn wrote:
>
>> 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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