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Image handling can use significant improvement/fixing #251

Closed jmcd040 closed 5 years ago

jmcd040 commented 5 years ago

WM3 Beta 8; Windows 10; Chrome This may be a known issue but local image handling just doesn't work well.

These two forms will place an image into the edit pane of WM3: ![Ice Crystals]("file://C:/Users/,,,/2013-01-17-039a.jpg") ![Ice Crystals]("C:\Users\,,,\2013-01-17-039a.jpg") BUT there is no image in the preview or browser output; the text is just passed through.

These do NOT work at all: ![Ice Crystals](file://"C:/Users/,,,/2013-01-17-039a.jpg") ![Ice Crystals](file://C:/Users/,,,/2013-01-17-039a.jpg)

The last line is in the form given in the WM3 documentation.

In addition, it is not possible to drag an image from Windows Explorer and drop it in WM3.

writemonkey commented 5 years ago

New markdown parser (3.0.8) treats local image links differently. You don't need file:// at the beginning, you just use full path like:

![](c:\path\path\image.png)

on Windows or

![](/path/path/image.png)

on Mac.

I'll update the documentation. Drag and drop shouldn't be to difficult to implement. i.

jmcd040 commented 5 years ago

Just tried it and there are two issues: As far as placing an image in the WM edit window: ![](c:\path\path\image.png) does not work using the WM3 Beta8 dowload in Windows 10, however ![]("c:\path\path\image.png") does work.

Neither form places an image in the preview and browser. The exact text of the link is all that appears.

writemonkey commented 5 years ago

Try using forward slashes (/). Does this show the image in browser? i.

jmcd040 commented 5 years ago

No form of the image link that references local images will make an image appear in the preview or browser.

These forms will place the image in the editor pane: ![Ice Crystals]("C:\Users\Jim\Pictures\Background Textures\2013-01-17-039a.jpg") ![Ice Crystals]("C:/Users/Jim/Pictures/Background Textures/2013-01-17-039a.jpg") ![Ice Crystals]("file://C:/Users/Jim/Pictures/Background Textures/2013-01-17-039a.jpg")

What's common is that the entire contents of the parentheses must be inside double quotations.

Now this produces good html that loads a picture: ![dummy][img1]"Image title/attribution or whatever you want to go under it"

[img1]: http://placekitten.com/400/300

but the local image references just copy the entire markdown to the output as text.