Feature: Insert image from system clipboard

[jdittrich]

Story: As a user, I want to insert images to draw.io quickly.

It can be useful to be able to insert images from the clipboard to diagrams, e.g.:

• I want to improve an existing diagram and want to insert the old version for reference and documentation purposes.
• I want to create a mockup and want to reuse bits and pieces from a screenshot
• …

Why clipboard?: All can be done via image import, but export to image and importing it again is most often more cumbersome than Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Match Google Docs/Confluence: (image-)insert from system clipboard functions are available in google docs and in confluence, so users may be used to it already.

[alderg]

Works in Chrome.

[jdittrich]

Thanks for the info. Any change we might be able to find a cross browser solution? Or are these still depended of flash and other workarounds (I did not dissect the google docs implementation so far)?

[alderg]

No workarounds or flash used. Just checked in FF and it throws an error. The code is here: https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io/blob/master/war/js/diagramly/EditorUi.js#L3539

[jdittrich]

thanks, I hope I find the time to look at it.

[jdittrich]

…It seems to be coming with Firefox 50; before FF seems not to support the used items-array.