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Isaac and Gizmo

This thread clearly addresses a capability that is very important to our own UBB forums. Our community is aviation related and many of our posts are a mix of narrative and images displayed in line with the text. The text will describe a certain detail supported by the picture and then the text will continue on to another detail with supporting picture. A lightbox gallery with embedded captions does not support the need. In addition post text that says something like:

As you can see the wing spar corrosion can easily hide from normal inspections -- See Image below -- and can destroy the aircraft over time.
Corrosion Image Here

The procedure to address this problem is as follows:

Step 1 text (might be a lengthy paragraph)
Step 1 picture(s)

Step 2 text (might be a lengthy paragraph)
Step 2 pictures

Tools required
Tools picture

Part failure description (might be a lengthy paragraph)
Part failure picture
New part description
New part picture
New part installed picture

Detailed text with pictures in context within the post is critical to conveying information in many of our posts.

Multiple posts with text and one picture is a kludge compared to inline text and pictures within a single post.

We have the original SirDude inline upload modification and although it has limitations it makes it easy for our users to create the type of post described above. Before the modification we had to do the whole dance of offline resize, file manager upload, display pictures to grab URLs, Edit the original post to insert img tags. It was a constant headache and confused many of our forum participants.

For us the solution does not need to be drag and drop to the post edit. What we really want is the ability when editing a post to upload pictures with automatic re-size (ver 7.6.1) and drop an img tag or equivalent into the post as it is being edited.

Other files such as PDF are fine for us as Fail Manager uploads that can be viewed by clicking on the File Manager link.

Abbott

PS. Wordstar is a word processor from long ago. It was originally for the CP/M operating system and was ported to PC/MS-DOS. Earlier versions of MS Word and WordPerfect had the ability to read and convert Wordstar docs to their own format. There are still some standalone file-view programs out there that can read a Wordstar format but in general I don't think UBB is responsible for supporting a universal file viewer. Might be a nice feature but certainly not a requirement and most of today's universal viewers don't support the old Wordstar format. You can still download Wordstar and install it up through Windows 10. In any case there are ways to convert Wordstar formats to a newer supported format but the owner of the content should really be the one to make the effort to preserve the content in a current file format.