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How to attach pictures
« on: February 28, 2012, 08:45:10 PM »
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 09:08:06 PM »
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2012, 09:37:13 PM »
Hi, I am using paint to reduce photos so I can post them. The smallest I can reduce a photo is one percent, that creates a file size of 101 K which is to large to post. Is there another method that I can use to reduce the photo to be small enough so I can post them?
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2012, 09:46:42 PM »
I have the same problem with "bitmap files" You will need to convert to jpeg, I use Mircrosoft Image Composer for this.

In Paint, your not going to be saving to jpeg, the file size will be huge in paint.

You need to find a program, that you can insert the image, then crop it, at 480 by 640 or whatever.

here are some examples-

http://download.cnet.com/Quick-JPEG-Resize-and-Crop/3000-2192_4-10821232.html

http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080724091555AAbp99w

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2012, 10:27:44 PM »
GoVerticle -

I always use tinypic.com.  You can choose 640x480 and then it spits out the [img] code so you can paste it in your message.  Tinypic has yet to fail me yet since I have joined this forum.

I guess it also doesn't use space on the field lines server, if that's worth anything.

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2013, 09:54:41 AM »
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2018, 12:04:27 AM »
I've done a little update to image posting guidelines, here:  https://www.fieldlines.com/index.php/topic,149480.0.html
The posting rules have changed, and I've added some instructions to help members use the image posting features.
There is much less need to resize photos before uploading, now.  The site can re-size them for you.
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2019, 06:31:36 PM »
Inline images work better for the archive than end of posts images.





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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2019, 11:45:27 PM »
End-of-post option has been disabled entirely, you no longer have to select the inline attachments manually :)

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2019, 08:38:22 AM »
TA;
I also noticed the cute little GO UP button at the bottom of the post(s) too.
Nice little add-on.

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2019, 10:32:39 AM »
Yeah I was going through some attachments settings (got a question about them for Jeremy later) and while I was at it I checked some other things and it was simply disabled for some odd reason ;D

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2019, 02:13:57 PM »
That looks good Flavio :) Going test this a little more.

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2019, 09:50:24 PM »
Thank you!

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2019, 11:59:23 PM »
I just posted some pictures.
The change has a little side-effect.
Used to be: When you selected your photo, you then could select from the list to choose "inline expandable".  Doing that put a bit of text into the body of the message that looks a lot like this: {attach=1} except it has square braces.

When posting now, I can't do that action, and nothing makes the {attach=1} appear.  I have to type that in manually after the image has been selected.

Not all users will know to do that.
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2019, 10:14:43 AM »
Ah for goodness sake there's an onclick event on the... PFFFFT, I'll have another look later today. Meanwhile, temporarily reverted :/

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2019, 01:59:36 PM »
Right, at the moment the first attachment will work fine and the {attach=1} will pop up the moment you click on the dropdown (although it's not a real selection, it has to be clicked because it's a javascript command). However, starting from the 2nd attachment that command doesn't register and doesn't add the {attach=2}. Need to figure out why, you would think it's the same code copy/pasted but it's not, there's quite a bit of stuff behind it starting from checks whether the user can post the attachment at all, if it's moderated, if he isn't trying to post too many attachments per post (so there is a count function) and all of this combined returns that "2" bit. It's not as easy as I thought it would have been ;D
Multiple clicks on the first box are allowed though, but they will always return {attach=1}, you just have to change the number for each attachment... For now.

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2019, 03:34:39 PM »
Ha! Got it, it works now :) Also changed the text itself so it's more clear.

Good catch Sparweb as usual, thanks! And sorry for the temporary issue :P This topic might need to be updated to reflect this much easier method though :)

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2019, 06:51:52 PM »
Great job Flavio :)

when I get settled from work, I will explain why are doing this

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2019, 07:16:47 PM »
Check this out

https://www.fieldlines.com/index.php?action=recent,

the list goes to 500 posts and is good way to watch or catch up for recent posts, at the of the list is how to catch up with posted
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2019, 09:42:45 PM »
Flavio There a bug take a look the recent errors

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2019, 10:21:04 PM »
Nope, only some bots that manage to trigger who knows what somehow, every once in a while. Seen that a long time ago, all good.

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2019, 10:31:45 PM »
Here is the issue, I was on the logged in section and normally I can post a large image, but when I tried the thing it locked with a blanked page

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Re: How to attach pictures
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2019, 11:13:16 PM »
Yeah I can see that having super heavy images crashes the server, it's just lack of server power... I did mention this host is questionable :/ I tried to increase php execution time and to display any error but it just doesn't show anything.

And... Yes, that last image is me ;D

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #25 on: October 18, 2019, 11:16:56 PM »
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2019, 11:21:29 PM »
OK
It functions a little differently, but it's better. 
When clicking the list-box you would expect a list to open, and one does for a millisecond.  But there's only one item in it so not really much point, now.

Any interest in keeping the alternative option?  Used to be in the list-box named (something like) "attach to end-of post".
Any interest in changing the list-box to a simple button to click?
Perhaps name it "insert image" to make this similar to other sites?
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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2019, 11:25:38 PM »
If we do that it will undermine the image recent posts that will not load

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #28 on: October 18, 2019, 11:31:21 PM »
OK
It functions a little differently, but it's better. 
When clicking the list-box you would expect a list to open, and one does for a millisecond.  But there's only one item in it so not really much point, now.

Any interest in keeping the alternative option?  Used to be in the list-box named (something like) "attach to end-of post".
No.
Any interest in changing the list-box to a simple button to click?
That's kind of what it already is, I could sort of "prettify" it but that's about it. Later anyway, going to sleep.
Perhaps name it "insert image" to make this similar to other sites?
Whatever suits you guys best, this is really easy to change :)

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2019, 11:35:42 PM »
Flavio what are the limits on image size. also can you make a warning that image size has been exceeded

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« Reply #30 on: October 18, 2019, 11:55:16 PM »
SparWeb

The end post image will not load on the recent posts section. if you look at this on recent page the images will not display.

We cannot make end of posts image display(we dont no how to fix it)

So were using this work around'

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #31 on: October 19, 2019, 09:28:57 AM »
Flavio what are the limits on image size.
I don't know, there is no hard cap.
also can you make a warning that image size has been exceeded
No because it just crashes the server, if it crashes I can't say "ehy, don't crash and show this instead", it crashes and that's it. It's kind of like a middle finger ;D
Now to be realistic this still shouldn't be an issue because to make it crash I had to upload pictures that were 9MB each, 4000*4000px or something, super high definition (the guys that take pics of people at the track are no joke with cameras). In a real application this shouldn't happen, I haven't seen anyone posting pictures of such stupid high quality, it was some kind of heavy stress test on my part - reason being it's generally good for an admin/developer to know the server limits, even though in this case I can't really draw an accurate line so to speak.

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Re: How to attach pictures
« Reply #32 on: October 19, 2019, 09:49:32 AM »
Aaand done, now it no longer flashes the dropdown and it's an actual button. In some browsers it might show a small arrow (it's still a list), although on most browsers it will look like a simple button, I even made it look like the post/preview ones, with same hover effects :)
I made the text to say insert image now, this one can be really whatever, to me it should be fine like this :)

P.S.: you might have to clear your cache, I flushed the forum one but... Yeah.