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How to insert a PICTURE into a forum post

Hi ALL,

<edit> Please now read my 3rdpostin this thread,the 4thone up, of my posts,from thebottom ( for now ), as the forum format has changed yet again.

Please ignore the rest of this post as it applied to the older forum format.

I will leave the rest of this post ( as is ) purely for historical reasons. I have been on these forums long enough to see two forum changes. ;-) :-) </edit>
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Here is how I do it.

Anyone know an easier way?

To any moderator. Please make this a STICKY post.

Regards,

John

a22Pom said:

Hi Guys,

For John Anthony Oliver,How did you insert that screen capture? I've tried before on questions without any luck and the old saying , "A picture paints ....etc"comes into force strongly.

Best Rgds,
22Pom



1)a) The PrintScreen button copies the entire screen to the clipboard.

1)b) ALT + PrintScreen keys on your keyboard copies the active window only.



2) Then open MSPAINT and PASTE the clipboard contents ( CTRL + V ).


3) SAVE the file and upload it to somewhere.

I use http://photobucket.com/

4) Once you have a picture uploaded I copy the 3rd link down.>>

Photobucket



5) When you EDIT a post click on the HYPERLINK MANAGER then the ANCHOR tab and PASTE the text in and then click on OK as shown below.

Photobucket


Final picture showing you where I post the TEXT starting <a href="

>>

Photobucket



If anyone knows an easier way then please let me know. :-)

Now I have shown how I do it I will copy this post into my two forum sticky posts or a link to a post from my twoSTICKY posts.:-)


Regards,

John


For links to VB.Net tutorials see here.>>
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/29f2179b-997b-4115-a96d-a0834853b835

John Anthony Oliver  Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:11 AM
You have images in your posts?! I've got photobucket blocked so I guess I'm not seeing them...
Stephen J Whiteley
SJWhiteley  Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:58 PM
indeed he does. imagine that, john writing long posts, with pictures.
dbasnett  Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:02 PM
I'm looking forward to videos.
I marked John's post as helpful.
Rick
Rick1  Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:51 PM
dbasnett said:

indeed he does. imagine that, john writing long posts, with pictures.


Hi dbasnett,

I thought , ha-ha, very funny!!

I guess you do not like long posts then ( or you don't like my posts, LOL!! )??


SJWhiteley said:

You have images in your posts?! I've got photobucket blocked so I guess I'm not seeing them...


Stephen J Whiteley



Hi Stephen,

Are you seeing lots of white space when you look at the 1st post in this thread then?

Stephen, any chance of you making this a STICKY thread please?


Regards,

John

For links to VB.Net tutorials see here.>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/29f2179b-997b-4115-a96d-a0834853b835
John Anthony Oliver  Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:27 AM

John Anthony Oliver,

Thank you so much for that information now I can use pictures in my posts to clarify myself instead of stumbling upon my words.

Best Regards,

Adjutor

Adjutor  Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:34 AM

Thank you John and Allfor your long-time friendly help and support.
Make this thread as Sticky.

By the way, here is another approach to display an online image on your post:
Step 1. Right-click an image on web page -> Select "Properties" context menu item-> Copy the Address(URL)
Step 2. Insert such format code <img src="ImageURL"> toHTMLview of your postlike this:
Note: We'd better post those images that belong to you or come from your personal website because of copyright or hotlink-stealing as Omie reminded.


Best regards,
Martin Xie



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Martin Xie - MSFT  Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:20 PM
Thank you for this very useful post, John!
I have joined quite a number of forums and all of them use [IMG]URL[/IMG] to insert an image hehehe
wnd4459  Saturday, March 28, 2009 2:47 PM
Thank you for this very useful post, John!
I have joined quite a number of forums and all of them use [IMG]URL[/IMG] to insert an image hehehe

Hi wnd4459 and everyone else ,

Now the format of the forums has changed, yet again, I guess we will have to resort to HTML as per the reply by
MARTIN XIE MSFT as per the post (2 posts above this one ).

1) Except now copy the content of the DIRECT LINK box from PHOTOBUCKET >>



2) Select the HTML button ( while you are creating / editing a post )
as per the PICTURE below and insert the link like this.>>

<img src="http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a272/u-might-want-this/ForumScreenshotEdit.jpg">

in the HTML window so you get this.>>





Note to MARTIN XIE ( and everyone else)

<img src="ImageURL">

NOT

<img src="ImageURL"/>

It ends with just a greater than sign, the / that you mentiond is not required.

See this page for proof.>>


Inserting an IMAGE tutorial page from W3schools.


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:29 PM
Hi,

I thought this was a very useful thread??

To the moderators, so why is it no longer a STICKY?


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:58 PM
MODERATORS

I agree with John! This needs to be a sticky thread!!


Doug
Doug__  Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:46 PM
MODERATORS

I agree with John! This needs to be a sticky thread!!


Doug

Hi Doug,

Even though I started this thread, I now say; Thank you very much for your support!! :-) ;-D :-]


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:35 PM

Glad to see your activehelp and supportto MSDN community :)

The reason why this thread is no longer sticky, is that the sticky duration is expired.

Make this instructive thread sticky for three months again.

If any urgent forum issue, you can contact me v-maxie@microsoft.com
Thank you All!

Best regards,
Martin Xie


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Martin Xie - MSFT  Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:06 AM
@ John - You're most welcome! I wouldn't have known how to do it had I not seen this thread. And, as is said, "A picture is worth a thousand words". Many times it is very helpful to "SEE" a question that has been asked.

============

Thank you Martin Xie for resetting this as a sticky! Is there a way we can make sure it stays that way so that you or other moderators don't have to reset it every 3 months?


Doug
Doug__  Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:45 AM
Hi Doug,

Thanks for your enthusiastic support and concern :)

Actually the Sticky Durationcan be endless. The reason why I stick it only three months, is to avoid too many sticky threads holding homepage layout. However consider it's very very helpful "A picture is worth a thousand words", Now I re-make this thread sticky for one year, till to 2010-06-30. Sorry for the change.

Have a nice day.

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Martin Xie - MSFT  Friday, June 19, 2009 11:05 AM
Hi Martin Xie,

Thank you very much.

:-) :-D ;-] :-}

I have marked your previous 2 posts AS HELPFUL as a way of saying thanks. :-)

I will email you near or just after 30th June, 2010 if you should then want to make this a stickythread again.


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Friday, June 19, 2009 1:48 PM

Dear John,
You're welcome :-)
You can contact me by then :-D
Thank you for your manyinstructive threads and enthusiastic help in MSDN community ;-]

Regards,
Martin
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Martin Xie - MSFT  Monday, June 22, 2009 7:41 AM
By the way, here is another approach to display an online image on your post:
Step 1. Right-click an image on web page -> Select "Properties" context menu item-> Copy the Address(URL)
Step 2. Insert such format code <img src="ImageURL"> toHTMLview of your postlike this:



Best regards,
Martin Xie


Umm... Thats called HotLinking Martin. and thats kinda immoral. That way you'll steal 'THAT' website's bandwidth. 'Stealing' because its without their consent and notice. You'll find some servers disabling hotlinking for the same reason.

Further, images posted on other sites may be copyrighted and proprety of their own. So I would say avoid it. Only post those images that belog to you or are royalty free. Use image sharing sites who allow their b/w to be used .

No Hard Feelings please.. thought I should point it out since thread is sticky and newbies might try doing ^that..




Thanks

I AM OPTIMUS PRIME
Omie  Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:13 PM

Thank you Omie for your kind reminding! You're considerate.

I have edited my that post and add the Note: We'd better post those images that belong to you or come from your personal website because of copyright or hotlink-stealing as Omie reminded.

Martin Xie - MSFT  Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:58 AM
I have done it before but I just can't remember how to copy on the "Form" instead of the entire screen.

Say I am working on the Visual Basic IDE and I want to copy only the "Form1.Vb[Design]" image. How is it done?

Thanks.
Only performance counts!
Sylva  Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:38 AM
I have done it before but I just can't remember how to copy on the "Form" instead of the entire screen.

Say I am working on the Visual Basic IDE and I want to copy only the "Form1.Vb[Design]" image. How is it done?

Thanks.
Only performance counts!

Hi,

Use ALT with the PrintScreen key to capture the active window.


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:42 AM
I did that and it captured both the Server Explorer, the tool/menu bar, properties window, Solution explorer, etc. I want to capture only the Form in design view. Is it possible?
Only performance counts!
Sylva  Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:51 AM
meh.. start debugging and Capture it.


Thanks

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Omie  Saturday, August 08, 2009 2:10 PM
I did that and it captured both the Server Explorer, the tool/menu bar, properties window, Solution explorer, etc. I want to capture only the Form in design view. Is it possible?
Only performance counts!

Hi Sylva,

As Omie said, RUN the program ( even with no active code ) and capture it that way. :-)

Still use ALT wth PrintScreen.


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:50 PM
OK. I have done so and it works. I was only wondering if it is possible to capture only the Form while at design view?
Only performance counts!
Sylva  Sunday, August 09, 2009 8:54 PM
OK. I have done so and it works. I was only wondering if it is possible to capture only the Form while at design view?
Only performance counts!

Hi,

There isn't any method to capture an image of just the FORM without running the code that I know about, sorry.


Regards,

John
John Anthony Oliver  Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:32 PM
Snipping Tool helps there ^_^ but NOT if form is too large to fit in designer frame at once..



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Omie  Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:59 PM
Coder24.com  Saturday, August 15, 2009 11:18 AM
Just asa tip, you can use the PrintKey program to create images. It's free and much better than using the Print Screen feature.

http://www.webtree.ca/newlife/printkey_info.htm


Gary Lima
MS Visual Basic MVP
http://www.garylima.blogspot.com/

VBRocks  Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:33 PM
VBRocks, no offense but that program is too old. Snipping Tools is a nice option these days :-)




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Omie  Thursday, September 17, 2009 3:04 PM
Thank you very much for the information now .



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dekhome  Friday, September 18, 2009 2:09 PM
I've been looking at how to put a picture in a forum post for a long time now....thanks for the information and how to do it.

I have since bookmarked this thread!
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