Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is reasonable to request that DnD from an OS window > into an editor should give a list of file paths? Or is there some "obvious" > reason why this doesn't already work? Is it purely a browser issue? Or > maybe it *does* work in other OS'es than Windows? > > > This comes up surprisingly frequently. >
I assume that's because it is still somewhat iffy to work with images in TW, both to import or to draw them. > When dragging and dropping, browsers do not expose the original file > location; JS code just sees the filename and content. > OK, but neither DnD'ing a single file nor multiple files into an editor(!) yields anything (except space characters). If it worked, it would be simple to add a path to them, or use a default path to some default folder so _canonical_uri tids could easily be created via DnD. This can be contrasted with an image on a webpage where its url can be directly DnD'd into the editor to get an url string there. (It also works to DnD one file, including full path, from "file:///C:/Users/....") TiddlyDesktop supports the external attachments plugin which does what you > want: on TiddlyDesktop we have access to the file path and so can create > _canonical_uri tiddlers to point to imported tiddlers. You can install the > plugin from the official plugin library. > That'd be for @Bruno who posted the OP. (Personally, I mostly use TiddlySpot for the majority of my wikis so I can't use local filepaths anyway - but it would be neat if it were possible to pull in an image link, e.g http:....jpg and it was recognized so the created tiddler was a _canonical_uri with the url.... but this is another question.) <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d534d6c7-4aef-43fa-9d71-2ce11975f7a5%40googlegroups.com.
