It's been a while since I've looked at either TinyMCE or FCKEditor (now CKEditor) but non of the WYSIWYG editors based on the browser can do what Hogsmill wants. In order to paste an image from the clipboard, you'll need something that can also upload the image to the server on the paste operation.
The product I've used in the past to accomplish this is XStandard--which comes as either a Firefox add-on and an ActiveX control for IE. It does require an client installation, but it's a very powerful XHTML-based editor and works really well for us. The images are uploaded to the server via a web service on the paste operation--it even handles multiple images in the clipboard. We choose XStandard, because users could copy an entire Word document into the clipboard with multiple images and simply paste it into the XStandard editor and the content would get pasted complete with all the images in the Word document. There are some Java-based rich text editor controls I found too, but they were all much more expensive. Also, if you *only* care about pasting a single image (and don't really need the whole rich text portion) you could write a signed Java applet to do this. For our help desk application, I wrote a signed Java applet that would either take the screenshot for the user or allow pasting an image from the clipboard to add as an attachment. I can't share the code, but it's relatively straightforward (the biggest issue is handling clipboard operations on the Mac.) -Dan On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Peter Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you thought of using a rich text editor to do this such as > TinyMCE and FCKEditor - they both have paste from clipboard > functionality > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Hogsmill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This may or may not be possible, but if anyone knows a way to do it, > > I'd love to hear from you. > > > > Basically, I simply (?) want to copy an image (e.g. from ALT-Print > > Screen or 'Copy Image'), and paste/drop it into an img tag on a page > > so it appears on the page. I can then resize, drag-drop, etc. as > > required. > > > > I've had a rummage around the net, but can't find anything. Maybe it's > > impossible? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Steve > > >
