I would expect that to be somewhat os-dependant (I mostly use Linux), but
perhaps it is there. I will try to take a look for clipboard-paste
functions.
On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8:22:44 PM UTC tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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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