(First of all, please allow me to apologize for my confusion -- it was Rohag, not Sabrina, who mentioned using Linux.)
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Originally Posted by Sabrina
When I right click, I get all the options, I select "copy image" but when I try and paste, nothing happens. Not even the code from photobucket will paste. The image just doesn't appear. It is as if paste is broken. Don't know how else to explain.
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Assuming for the moment that your system is something like mine -- there are two entirely different kinds of things you can be copy-pasting: the
location (URL) of an image, or the
image itself. URLs are text; images are, well, images.
If I right-click on an image, your avatar let's say, then click the "Copy Image Location" option, I end up with a text string on my clipboard: the URL of your avatar. If I paste that into a post, it looks like this:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/image.php?u=8958&dateline=1246039416
If I right-click on the same image and this time click the "Copy Image" option, I end up with an actual image on my clipboard. If I try to paste it into this post, nothing happens; only text, not images, can go in a composer window and even the right-click menu shows the "Paste" selection as grayed and not available. If, however, I go to a program like Photoshop or Word that can handle images and try pasting
there, I get a little picture of a chihuahua with glasses.
I can make the image appear in a post by copying its URL (the "Copy Image Location" option again) and pasting it into the post with "IMG" tags around it:
Left unparsed, the code for the above image looks like this:
[IMG]http://forums.psychcentral.com/image.php?u=8958&dateline=1246039416[/IMG]
Which of these do and don't work for you? By the way, on this system (Windows 98 SE) I have Clipboard Viewer available and can use it to see what's on my clipboard; it shows both text and images. If you have it (or can get it), I'd suggest using it a few times to help you figure out exactly what it is each time that you've copied and are trying to paste.