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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: StFeder on January 24, 2008, 07:25:49 am
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In the MC12 FAQ there is a short instruction in how to use Pix01 for posting screenshots in posts.
How do I post a screenshot?
You can use MC to do it. Here's how.
1. Select your window.
2. Hit Alt-Print Screen. This copies the window to the clipboard.
3. Then select Camera in the Action Window, and Copy from Clipboard. This imports it.
4. Then select the new image and choose Share to Web. This will put it on our pix01.com site.
5. Pix01.com will mail you a link (from Pixie). Copy and paste the link to the forum. If you add [ img ] and [ /img ] around the link, it will display in the post. (Remove the spaces around the words img and /img in the previous instructions -- I had to add them so the board wouldn't treat the img tag specially.)
For me it doesn't work with that [ img] and [/ img] around the link. I had to fill the direkt link to the photo between [ img] and [/ img].
Example:
If I use this expression: [ img]http://pix01.com/bJ@i0p8[/ img], which is the link provided in Pix01 and the pixie eMail, I just get an empty screen, as you see here:
(http://pix01.com/bJ@i0p8)
If I use this expression:
[ img]http://www.pix01.com/gallery/BD01FC74-5847-4306-A29B-3AA1BF99BB82/MC_Screenshot_II/image0.jpg[/ img], which is the direct link to the picture file in Pix01, the photo is displayed correctly, as you can see here:
(http://www.pix01.com/gallery/BD01FC74-5847-4306-A29B-3AA1BF99BB82/MC_Screenshot_II/image0.jpg)
Perhaps the FAQ should be updated. A better way to do would be, to modify Pix01 in a way, that the direct link to a photo is either send by pixie or displayed in the admin area, so that we don't have to rightclick the photo to watch up the link.
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
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Thank you for posting this. I gave up on using Pix01 for screenshots because I could not get it to work after following the instructions.
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I tried this the other day, and although the image was uploaded, I could not view it online.
http://www.pix01.com/gallery/ED13D42F-DA5E-448D-87D4-EEE39DF2743B/MC_bugs/
DC
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The method I usually use (from Firefox) is:
1. Browse to the pix01 gallery
2. Right-Click on the med sized image and select Copy Image Location
3. Back in Interact, paste the URL between img tags like this:
[img]http://www.pix01.com/gallery/med_image.jpg[/img]4. Go back to pix01 and click on the fullsize button
5. Right-Click on the image and select Copy Image Location
6. Back in Interact, wrap the previous img tag in a url tag and paste the URL like this:
[url=http://www.pix01.com/gallery/big_image.jpg][img]http://www.pix01.com/gallery/med_image.jpg[/img][/url]
This leaves you with a medium sized image in the forum that links to the full-sized image on pix01 like this:
(http://www.pix01.com/gallery/48C33E3C-02A2-4C0C-8E33-D6A876D12E94/MC12_Screenshots/4207878620.jpg) (http://www.pix01.com/gallery/48C33E3C-02A2-4C0C-8E33-D6A876D12E94/MC12_Screenshots/420787862_orig0.jpg)
I too wish there was way to get something like this without all the manual work.
-John