How to Inline a picture without exceeding the 10000 char limit

[ADobson]

I was recently trying to add a picture to an idea proposal and came up against an error that said I had exceeded the 10,000 char limit for a message. Yet on looking at various posts I see many with inlined images. How do you do that without hitting the limit?

I did try the image to add an exception to Firefox for NI.com but this still fails to show a popup for image insertion.

Thanks.

[RavensFan]

How are you trying to insert the picture?  Did you use the icon of the tree that is on the menu ribbon of the editor box?  Which tab of the 3 choices in the dialog box did you choose?

[ADobson]

Clicked on that icon and it presented a tabbed dialog with "From My Computer", "From My Uploaded Images" and "From Another Site".

The one from my computer is selected and the only thing I see is a blue box that has a link you can click but it does nothing, this was why I thought it was a popup problem as nothing happens when I click it. I see no other way to insert an image from that dialog so I gave up and used a file attachement instead. It seems most everyone else does not have this issue.

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

What I do is attach the image to the post.  I then open the image attachment in another tab and copy the address.  I then edit my post, and insert the image using the popup window.  I use the "From Another Site" and just paste in the address of the image.  Hit load and then ok.  This keeps my personal images clean and makes sure the image stays with the relevant post.

I will admit though that the insert image dialog can take some time to load completely.  But I just attributed that to my company's firewall.

[ADobson]

Thanks for the input, though it seems like a convoluted way to get an image into the post without hitting the 10,000 char limit.

I will try that for my next post as it seems like the only workable solution so far.

Best regards.

[RavensFan]

It is a bit convoluted, but it has nothing to do with a 10,000 character limit.  I have never heard of a limit, nor have any idea what that is supposed to mean when dealing with images.  (Many images are going to be greater than 10 kilobytes in size anyway.)  There have been a lot of weird things with the forums lately related to uploading files and nonsensical error messages.  Maybe you came across some new ridiculous error message we haven't come across yet.

Although convoluted, the method Crossrulz describes is better than the first dialog box choice that the forums give you.  It associates the image with the message since it is an attachment to the message.  The first choice winds up putting the image in the user's image gallery and is only peripherally connected to the message where it is used.  What happens if the user cleans out his gallery?  The message thread with the embedded image loses its image to never be seen again.

The attached file method (tab 3 of the dialog box) will never have that problem.

Once you've done the "attach, post, get attachment properties, edit message, embed image, resubmit" method  a few times, it isn't difficult and only takes about 20-30 seconds to do.

[ADobson]

The 10,000 char limit stems from the fact that when you paste an image directly into the post with Ctrl+V you immediatley see the image and think nothing of what is involved to get it there. What happens behind the scenes is that it converts this image via some Base64 encoding or alternative which translates all those image pixels into chars, thus htting the ceiling of 10,000 chars per post the forum allows. You can see this by viewing the message in the HTML tab and all the wierd chars in the view are the image and each one counts towards the 10,000 limit.

It would be nice if any NI folks would look into making this a bit less cumbersome as other non-NI forums I use don't seem to have issues like this.

[altenbach]

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@ADobson wrote:

The 10,000 char limit stems from the fact that when you paste an image directly into the post with Ctrl+V you immediatley see the image and think nothing of what is involved to get it there. What happens behind the scenes is that it converts this image via some Base64 encoding or alternative which translates all those image pixels into chars, thus htting the ceiling of 10,000 chars per post the forum allows. You can see this by viewing the message in the HTML tab and all the wierd chars in the view are the image and each one counts towards the 10,000 limit.

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 You are not making any sense here.

[ADobson]

Try a simple test, post a copy of an image from your clipboard directly into a post you are working on, then switch to the HTML tab and you will see multiple characters in there, some from the text your actually wrote in the post and the rest are the HTML interpretations of that post.

In the case of the image you pasted into the post you will see 'img src="data:image/png;base64' followed by the character representation of your image encoded as base64.

All those characters you see in there count to the 10,000 limit of a post.

It didn't make sense to me until I tried it and got hit by a failure to post my new message.

[altenbach]

If I copy a picture from the clipboard, my edit box stays empty. What's your browser and how exactly are you filling the clipboard?