relative path to images

[Axel Ko]

Hi,

I've read that you can only see pictures in the editor that have absolute path. Since a lot of webdesign programs start in the current directory isn't it possible to just look for the images in the $ROOT path if the path is relative. I mean often images look like <img src="images/pic1.gif">. If you look at the $ROOT/images dir you will find the pictures. I don't know if this is easy to make but it would be very nice to me.

Regards,
Axel

[admin]

It's a very good suggestion..  

The problem isn't that it can't be done.. the problem is that it would take a LOT of work.

The WYSIWYG editor uses dhtml and mshtml components, from Microsoft.  The image capability is "built-in" using the components they provide.  If I modify anything, then the result would mean having to completely rewrite the ENTIRE component myself.

Every little bit of functionality would need to be completely rewritten.  It's a case of "all or nothing", I guess.

I'm still investigating if I should do this, because I agree that most web pages use relative links for images.. and it would be nice to see the images in the editor, not just a placeholder.

[jdawes]

I would have to agree that it would be nice for the actual images to show up. Though I have no idea how much work it us, but if you are using premade plugins for that section of it then no doubt there would be a great deal of work involved. Perhaps the components that snippetmaster uses written by microsoft wrote could be updated by microsoft?

[jdawes]

until such time as there is a work around or a fix for this, I think i will avoid the issue by using full image references on pages where the images will be editable in snippetmaster and everywhere else I will avoid including images in the editable area unless particularly necessary.

Of course the curious twist to this is, as soon as I use complete url references for the images they don't show up in the offline html editor. It's not such a big deal, I'd rather not see them image myself than my client editing it not see the image.

Sometimes there is a lot of work involved in having the best of both worlds. Easier to work around it i guess.