Robert Ralston asked 3 years ago
When I try to insert a screen shot (.png) using the “insert/edit image”, the location on my computer (MAC 10.14.6) copies into the Source Field. I give the image an “image description”. Finally, I try Dimensions: 3 x 3 or 6 x 6.
But no image shows up in Visual. In the Text field, it looks correct to me, sort of, as I don’t really remember much html code.
Instead of an image, there is a tiny tiny square, or a dot, but nothing ever shows up.
Is the Insert/edit image function browser dependent ? (used Safari, but have not tried Chrome or Firefox)
Is this function OS dependent, eg. only Windows 10 or 11?
What types of images are acceptable: jpeg, png, tiff, …?
I cannot figure out what I am doing incorrectly
Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago
Hi.
To insert an image, please share a link to google drive, dropbox, imgur or another service that can host images.
Due to security issues our forum doesn’t support direct image uploading.
Regards,
Sara
Robert Ralston answered 3 years ago
Thanks Sara. Makes sense but still not working for me with Safari.
The link is definitely now from google drive:
<img class=”aligncenter” src=”https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VuCnaXxa870j4UaqFzOjZnN5t2nHkb1U/view?usp=sharing” alt=”thank” width=”600″ height=”600″ />
and the dimensions seems to be in pixels. But I never see the image right here, although I can download it.
I will try other browsers.
Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago
Hi.
I don’t think it is related to the browser.
I think is the software we use for the forum is not the best.
You can simply paste the link to the picture. I can open the link and see the picture just fine.
Regards,
Sara
Robert Ralston answered 3 years ago
Sara
Thanks for your replies. I was under the apparently erroneous impression that any inserted image would show up inline with any text. But apparently not, only a link will appear. Oh well. I’m done posting with this question so for me it is resolved.
Robert Ralston answered 3 years ago
This is just a test to learn how to use Imgur, google drive, and pastebin. Do these work for me?
CODE: https://pastebin.com/8ALyamHJ
IMAGE: https://imgur.com/AsqjtPU
GOOGLE DRIVE
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O5DyAsCS-kqNcSiLVz1iPe83z3MU7MOy/view?usp=sharing
Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago
Hi.
Yes.
It works just fine.
I’ll mark this issue as resolved. If you need further help, you just need to open a new question in our forum.
Regards,
Sara
Steve Mercer answered 3 years ago
Looking at the original link you posted:
<img class=”aligncenter” src=”https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VuCnaXxa870j4UaqFzOjZnN5t2nHkb1U/view?usp=sharing” alt=”thank” width=”600″ height=”600″ />
The src attribute is missing the closing double quote. Perhaps adding that would make the image show up?
Sara Santos Staff answered 3 years ago
“Steve,
Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I’m under the impression that there is no way whatsoever to have an image show up in the Forum in line with text,. Instead, you can have a link.
The Forum would like us to use Imgur for that link although we can also use our own Google Drive for the link.
I usually keep detailed notes about my projects which include a fair amount of screen shots. This would be painful to have to post link after link. So I’m just going to post my pdf which includes everything, code and images, but I will also post a link to my code on Pastebin.
Like I did with my last post
https://rntlab.com/question/esp32-wroom32-doitdevkit-v1-as-a-tv-remote-control/“
by Robert Ralston