Embedding and Captioning Photos

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The Berkeley Orbit Ace rests on my lawn, awaiting silver, sanding and paint.

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The First Step is to upload the image to the SSWF Server (or store it on some other server where you have the URL). When the upload is completed you will see the PhotoFileName.jpg appear in the attachment field of the posting form.

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The Second Step is to copy the PhotoFileName.jpg string from the attachment field to the point where you want to see the image in your presentation.

The Third Step is to put the addresss of the photo directory in front of the file name to create a complete url.

The address of the photo directory is:

http://clstunt.com/htdocs/dcforum/User_files/

Once you have a complete URL of an image file in place in your message, then the software will put the picture at that place in the final message.

Be sure to use the Preview button to see how things look before posting the message. Previewing the message lets you see the final result and make changes.

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The Caption is accomplished by using basic HTML tags--with the exception of the bracket instead of the caret--to modify the text. Use the handy HTML Reference link to bring up a window full of HTML syntax examples.

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The FINAL Step is to select all text in the attachments field of the message posting form and delete the image file names.

The images will be positioned inline in your presentation, the appropriate captions will be under them (I use a couple of BR tags to force some white space between photos so that a caption is clearly associated with the image it supports), so you don't want a duplicate set of images appearing after your text.

All of this takes a while--again, be sure to preview the posting often and correct mistakes before posting--but the result is more readable for the folks who are trying to understand the information you are presenting.

Thanks to Al for posting the great photos and information that provoked this.

The Cyberflyer

Tim

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"The more money they have in their more pockets — in their pockets, the more likely it is that somebody will find work." -George W. Bush, 2/9/03

Photoshop on a screen grab, scaled and compressed to 32% quality jpeg.

Never mind the guy behind the curtain.

That certainly made the process a lot simpler.

The new software has a lot of nice features, but I certainly would rather go back to the old way of handling photographs.

Cheers,

At the very least, the file upload dialog window should default to JPG, which is what 99% of the use is, thus saving everyone step in the process to change the setting and all the picture files that are useless because they end in .html, which is the current default.

I agree on the default to JPEG. I am working on the new version (soon to be released and have discussed this with the author of the software. So far I have lost that argument but plan to make the modification in the code myself to default to JPEG.

On the other, the "attachment" is easier to use, but more difficult when you wish to mix the pictures with dialogue. I will see what I can do with this as well

Here is the HTMLcode to default to JPEG:

<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Verdana" color="#000099">
<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="file_type" value="html">HTML file<br>
<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="file_type" value="jpg" checked>JPEG picture<br>
<INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="file_type" value="zip">ZIP compressed file
</font></td>

It is not quite that simple. The new version is written using php, and part of the problem is it is modular, which makes modification easier, but you have to search through the various modules just to find the location of the code you are after.