blog: image uploader

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
http://zabkat.com/blog/27Dec09-image-uploader.htm

[pdavit]

Great little tool, very useful and flexible.

Tinny wish: Menu, View > Toolbar and Status Bar activate/deactivate states to be remembered.

Thanx for the gift!

[nikos]

if people start liking and using this, i'll polish it more
spread the word!

[Tuxman]

Yeah, uplolad.  

I think the major problem is that most screenshot apps already do this for you.
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[nikos]

a crowded market never stopped me in the past
here's an immediate advantage, zscreen = 1.3 MB, ezUpload=66 kb

[Tuxman]

ZScreen can do more (and is coded in C#, oh well...). Yet.  

No problem with that. The more apps, the more choice.
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registered xplorer² pro user since Oct 2009

[RickyF]

Thanks for Easy Image Uploader.

The NY Times recently featured the original Dickens manuscript of A Christmas Carol in an article http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/a-christmas-rewrite-as-dickens-edits-dickens/?scp=2&sq=a%20christmas%20carol&st=cse and an online version http://documents.nytimes.com/looking-over-the-shoulder-of-charles-dickens-the-man-who-wrote-of-a-christmas-carol#p=1. It is fascinating to see Dickens' edits and read the original rather than see a film adaptation.

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[WimdeLange]

Is it an idea to give the tool a commandline? In that way I can give it an hotkey in xplorer2 and then it loads up the current file? Something like

ezUpload "filename" /service=tinypic

Extra options:
/readclip for importing the clipboard
/putclip puts the resultstring in the clipboard
/nogui does not shown the user interface for usage with /putclip?

Then it makes the whole process much more easier. Then it becomes like: Use xplorer2 to locate the picture. Hit the hotkey. Go to the forum and paste.

Just some thoughts to make life more easy (read lazy).
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  Wim de Lange

[nikos]

this is an interesting suggestion although i can't think of any other way to "return" the result URL except in the clipboard

also we can't be without GUI (tinypic is a PITA) but the gui could close automatically

[WimdeLange]

[Kilmatead]

It it just me or is there some magnificent* irony in the fact that searching for a file utilises the internal WE routines?

Yes, I know the reasons for this, I'm just highlighting a giggle or two at Nikos' expense.  At least the Libraries work (that's the second giggle.)

* arresting, august, brilliant, chivalric, commanding, elegant, elevated, exalted, excellent, fine, glittering, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, high-minded, imperial, imposing, impressive, lavish, lofty, luxurious, magnanimous, magnific, majestic, noble, opulent, outstanding, palatial, plush, pompous, posh, proud, radiant, regal, resplendent, rich, royal, smashing, splendid, standout, stately, striking, sublime, sumptuous, superb, superior, superlative, swanky, towering, transcendent

Ah yes, this is going to be a nice day in spite of the rain, and it's not even midday.

[nikos]

some people had problems with this new tool. It looks like internet explorer v8 has the file input box always readonly for security reasons of course, so this ezUploader won't work. I have to go back to the drawing board

this affects people with IE8 (eg if you have windows 7)

[Kilmatead]

{Giggle}  My mammy always said it was diversification that killed that brave, not foolhardiness.  Course she also said I'd find a nice girl and settle down, so you can't always trust your mother.

Or your browser's intestines.

ZScreen trundles on...

[WimdeLange]

[nikos]

damned be IE8!
but i managed to make it work for all browsers now
www.zabkat.com/ezUpload.zip (66kb)