I seem to remember that somewhere in the code base, Leo code to capture the
screen has already been worked out. If that's the case we're in clover.
On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 3:09:24 PM UTC-5 jkn wrote:
> 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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