Allow pasting images with ctrl + v

[ilyakonrad]

Just got a request to support attaching images through ctrl + v which could help use images in chats quicker by not having to download them.

[szuperaz]

I agree, this makes sense. I can't give you an ETA, I'll try to implement this in the second half of September, but it might get pushed to Q4.

In the meantime, you can try to build this yourself, but it requires some DOM API queries into the internals of SDK components which can hurt maintainability:

• Watch for clipboard paste events
• Check if any of the textarea element inside the stream-message-input component has the focus (thread vs channel message input) -> this is the hacky part
• Using Angular's DI, you can get the AttachmentService of the given stream-message-input component
• Use the filesSelected method of the AttachmentService to upload and create attachment from an image file

[ilyakonrad]

Thanks a lot, I'll wait for the official implementation ☺️

[github-actions[bot]]

:tada: This issue has been resolved in version 5.6.0 :tada:

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

Your semantic-release bot :package::rocket:

[ilyakonrad]

@szuperaz It seems to have broken pasting of text.

[ilyakonrad]

Nevermind, works in the latest version.