Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

Here's the easiest way I could find to link to images from another site, on a desktop. For this example I'm using Firefox. I have one window of Firefox in which I'm typing this new post, opened on the left half the screen, and another Firefox window opened with a post from craigslist on the right side of the screen.

Watch this video to see how I did it:

You are a heck of a lot smarter than I am :77: How the heck did you get two windows open on the same screen????

Cheers,
Gordy

Not easy Gordy, not easy at all. But I have no shame getting good ideas from others, so out came the hacksaw and cut each window in half. The rest is history. :132:

OK
This bring back some good old memory's
I forgot how to do it from way back when
I will try this next time I add some good looking tractors
Thank you thank you thank you

Just came in from fighting my way back to the 4020
got it on the charger now waiting to see if the battery will live another mowing season
My young ones think the garage is like there bedroom closet you know throw it in and shut the door fast so nothing falls out, boy I hate that
going to have to school them on the right way, never hide the the tractors under there stuff :o

cc

crazycase wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:03 pm
Just came in from fighting my way back to the 4020
got it on the charger now waiting to see if the battery will live another mowing season
My young ones think the garage is like there bedroom closet you know throw it in and shut the door fast so nothing falls out, boy I hate that
going to have to school them on the right way, never hide the the tractors under there stuff :o

cc

hahaha, that's hilarious cc, but what can you do, kids! We love 'em! I can't wait 'til my toddlers will start doing that! :24:

Nice tutorial.

We need to keep in mind a couple things here though.

I believe this is "3rd party hosting" of the image. Lots of sites don't like that as you're burning up their server space, and bandwidth, and not using their site. Personally, I don't much care, but they can block it from working on their side. It's been a while, but I remember doing this, and while my computer had permission to view the image because I was on the site (cookies possibly), nobody else was able to see the images.

The second issue, and this is more of a problem I think, is when the other image source goes away, so does the image. Now, if we're talking about a link to a Craigslist ad that's going to be meaningless in a few weeks anyway, it doesn't matter. If you're using this technique in a forum you want to have lasting usefulness, then it becomes an issue. Think of all the various forums out there now with crap posts because Photobucket stopped allowing 3rd Party links unless people started paying them way too much. I've got thousands of posts on the forums I've been on for the last 20+ years, and all my tech writeups are trashed because of that. I've still got the photos, but I sure wasn't paying for their service, and I don't have enough time in my life to go back and backfill photos in to the old posts, if I could even find them all...

I don't really have a good solution for this. I know we can push images up to this site and others, and I do. I've no idea what that does to the cost of hosting a site. Photos build up quickly I imagine, and are storage hogs. Likely not a major issue on startup of a forum, but after we burn up the included storage space, it's going to come at some price.

Indeed, it's a catch 22.

The reason I posted this small tutorial was specifically because cc prefers this method, to quickly post ads from sites like craigslist. I wonder if we do want to keep forever images from classified posts. There is no question that we do want to keep images from regular posts on our server, as that becomes the history of the site. It's really annoying to find a really interesting thread in a forum, only to see that all the images are gone because they were just linked to an external site that disappeared, instead of stored locally.

I have never seen a drag and drop from another site that would bring the image and store it on the forum server. If copy/paste the image would work, that would be easy, but the extension I installed didn't work for me. I'll keep this in mind though, if I come across a solution will implement it.

Ideally we would store images in all posts on our server. Then, at some point I'll have to increase storage, which, of course comes at a price. I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there. We should be ok for a few months, I think.

OK Guys
Tried to add a photo last night it would not take again, it's starting to were on me
I was thinking, adding it to my own photos nope that didn't work either
If you have photos save on your own computer would that keep the imagens a live on the site ?
When I drag the pic over it just goes away, I'm missing a step I guess but it's turning me into a nut
This is a new computer but it might be a old stock buy, who knows

tried putting in between the (img] ------[/img] didn't work
Hell I can't get one pic to go
cc

Hm.. sorry to hear that, I tested it quite well.

What browser are you using? And what operating system?

I have another way that works for pictures on my computer. My internet is down this afternoon so am doing this from my cell.
Step 1 open the CCIGT post window and add text.
Step 2 open my Picture file to the photos I want to upload.
Step 3 split the screen so both steps 1 and 2 can be seen.
Step 4 right click the picture to be up loaded and drag into the CCIGT text input area. The boarder of the CCIGT text input box should pulse with a dotted line boarder. Release the right click and drop picture.
Step 5 scroll down below the text input box. There should be a new window with the image name and a metering bar showing that the photo is uploading. When the green bar reaches 100%, two new buttons will appear next to the photo name.
Step 6 place the cursor in the text where it is to be placed.
Step7 drop back down to the image name below the CCIGT text box and click on one of the 3 buttons that indicates that you want to place the photo into your text.
Step 8 You will not see the photo in the text box but this should appear.《photo name jpeg or png.》
Step 9 select preview and the image will appear in the preview window.
Step 10 with each change made in the text box click PReview to see the edited change.

When our net is back up I will try making a tutorial.

Spike.

Spike188 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:26 pm I have another way that works for pictures on my computer. My internet is down this afternoon so am doing this from my cell.
Step 1 open the CCIGT post window and add text.
Step 2 open my Picture file to the photos I want to upload.
Step 3 split the screen so both steps 1 and 2 can be seen.
Step 4 right click the picture to be up loaded and drag into the CCIGT text input area. The boarder of the CCIGT text input box should pulse with a dotted line boarder. Release the right click and drop picture.
Step 5 scroll down below the text input box. There should be a new window with the image name and a metering bar showing that the photo is uploading. When the green bar reaches 100%, two new buttons will appear next to the photo name.
Step 6 place the cursor in the text where it is to be placed.
Step7 drop back down to the image name below the CCIGT text box and click on one of the 3 buttons that indicates that you want to place the photo into your text.
Step 8 You will not see the photo in the text box but this should appear.《photo name jpeg or png.》
Step 9 select preview and the image will appear in the preview window.
Step 10 with each change made in the text box click PReview to see the edited change.

When our net is back up I will try making a tutorial.

Spike.

I can confirm that this also works for me just like Spike described it. When you drag/drop images that are on your own computer, they will be uploaded to the forum and stored on the forum server. I would strongly recommend this procedure for regular posts, which we want to live forever. :77:

Spike188 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 3:26 pm I have another way that works for pictures on my computer. My internet is down this afternoon so am doing this from my cell.
Step 1 open the CCIGT post window and add text.
Step 2 open my Picture file to the photos I want to upload.
Step 3 split the screen so both steps 1 and 2 can be seen.
Step 4 right click the picture to be up loaded and drag into the CCIGT text input area. The boarder of the CCIGT text input box should pulse with a dotted line boarder. Release the right click and drop picture.
Step 5 scroll down below the text input box. There should be a new window with the image name and a metering bar showing that the photo is uploading. When the green bar reaches 100%, two new buttons will appear next to the photo name.
Step 6 place the cursor in the text where it is to be placed.
Step7 drop back down to the image name below the CCIGT text box and click on one of the 3 buttons that indicates that you want to place the photo into your text.
Step 8 You will not see the photo in the text box but this should appear.《photo name jpeg or png.》
Step 9 select preview and the image will appear in the preview window.
Step 10 with each change made in the text box click PReview to see the edited change.

When our net is back up I will try making a tutorial.

Spike.

That sounds awful complicated, especially Step 3, no idea how to do that.

After I start a post, I just use scroll down and click on the "Attachments" tab, then click "Choose file". A window opens for my pictures, and I click on the one I want then click on open, that window closes and I go to the "Attachment " tab and add text for the note and click add file. Then click preview as mentioned above.I see the "Attachment" tab has been changed a bit but looks like it's going to work. Oh and this is on my Chromebook laptop.

Cheers,
Gordy

Gordy, I guess you are not using the "Inline" button? What that does, it puts just a tag where the cursor happens to be, so that the attached image can be shown in a particular location within the rest of the posting.

Whereas if you leave the attachment as is, they will show at the end of the message. Just a matter of taste.

Something that this forum has is an extension I installed, so it shows a list of attachments with little pictures/thumbnails, so that you clearly see what you uploaded. It should be seen on any browser and/or computer.

Oh, one more thing. Depending on the size of the image, and your connection speed, the attached file may take some time to show in the attachment section, so you might need patience.

Eugen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:48 pm Gordy, I guess you are not using the "Inline" button? What that does, it puts just a tag where the cursor happens to be, so that the attached image can be shown in a particular location within the rest of the posting.

Whereas if you leave the attachment as is, they will show at the end of the message. Just a matter of taste.

Something that this forum has is an extension I installed, so it shows a list of attachments with little pictures/thumbnails, so that you clearly see what you uploaded. It should be seen on any browser and/or computer.

Oh, one more thing. Depending on the size of the image, and your connection speed, the attached file may take some time to show in the attachment section, so you might need patience.

Actually that is how I intended it to come out, but at the time the attachment tab looked different and I did not see the inline button.

Cheers,
Gordy

Chad mentioned he's having problem with getting images from kijiji classifieds here.







I used the same procedure as in my first post. I opened kijiji in a separate browser window, dragged the image from the kijiji post right into the text box here where I'm writing; this pasted the link to the image. I highlighted the link and clicked the img button above the text here. Did this for three images. Lets' see if they show up.