Make Snippets work with Google Chrome

[dthor]

Snippets do not currently work with the Google Chrome web browser. It only displays the file URL.

The work around is to save the Snippet to your computer and then drag the .png image to the block diagram, which essentially defeats the puropse of the Snippet.

The Idea is to make the drag-and-drop ability of snippets work with Google Chrome.

[RavensFan]

Related idea for Firefox http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Support-dragging-snippets-from-Firefox/idi-p/1118028

[altenbach]

Isn't this something that should be solved by the browser teams instead?

[Mr.Mike]

@altenbach: Drag and Drop is handled differently by different applications.  The way IE does it and the way Firefox/Safari/Chrome do it are different and we're only handling one of the cases.

This is already filed as CAR 292652: VI Snippet can't be dragged from Chrome, Firefox, Safari.

[JordanG]

In CAR database. CAR 292652

[Jeff-P]

CAR 292652 discussed in this thread was fixed in  LabVIEW 2014.  For a more complete list of bugs fixed in LabVIEW 2014, check the LabVIEW 2014 Bug Fixes. You can download an evaluation copy of LabVIEW 2014 at www.ni.com/trylabview/ or if you have an earlier version of LabVIEW installed and an active SSP subscription, you will be able to download the latest version of LabVIEW through NI Update Service.

Regards,

Jeff Peacock 

Product Support Engineer | LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments | Certified LabVIEW Architect 

[PincoG]

So, if it is solved, why I still have the problem on my pc?

[wiebe@CARYA]

>So, if it is solved, why I still have the problem on my pc?

This is a Khonos issue.

It could very well be an effect of something we actually want (reduce size of transferred data).

The link you're dragging isn't a link to the original image, but to an image with a 'reduced' image, resized and without the VI metadata. LabVIEW doesn't see a snippet, because it's not there.

For instance

Image URL: https://forums.ni.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/303261i6F5611E05A226E71/image-size/large?v=v2&px=...

Doesn't work even if you do a save as...

The modified URL: https://forums.ni.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/303261i6F5611E05A226E71

Does work when you do a save as.

This last image can also be drag\dropped, at least in Edge.

If you want to copy the image by it's URL in a post (, manually or with insert image), you need to add the file's name (Queue Skip Wait.png):

https://forums.ni.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/303261i6F5611E05A226E71/Hello%20Snippet.png

But the image displayed by the forum will again be shrunken.

[PincoG]

Is there something I can do, in Chrome settings for example, to avoid the shrinking images instead of snippets?

[wiebe@CARYA]

Pretty sure it's done by Khoros (the forum 'engine'), server side. No browser would be able to easily change that.

Chrome seems to be extendable with plugins, but I know absolutely nothing about it.

EDIT: Those extensions can alter HTML, so you should be able to change those image URLs with a plugin.

[wiebe@CARYA]

BTW, If you extend the image in Edge: 

There's a download button that does download the original image:

You can actually drag & drop this button into LabVIEW, and as it's a link to the original image, it will paste a snippet!

This might work in Chrome...