Getting images from the clippboard

[rickistern]

I want to be able to instruct a user to go to variouse web sites, or applications and copy the image into the clipboard. I then need a way for them to click a button on a page that I am creating and that will either paste the image somehow so that when the page is submitted the image can somehow be saved in a file on the server. I know that there is a ClippboardData object but from the documentation that I found it seems like it can only handle text

Thanks for any help
Ricki:D

[beetle]

I highly doubt that this is possible. There is no interface for even getting an image into the clipboard save PrintScrn, which is not what you want, I'm sure. Even then, only image-handling applications can receive the pasting of a clipboard-saved image, like MSPaint or Photoshop.

Best of luck, but I think you're not just barking up the wrong tree, I don't think the tree is even there.

[rickistern]

Actually, we already have half the tree! We have the application that places the image in the clipboard. It's the 'other half' that we are confused about. Thanks.

[beetle]

Oh ya. forgot Right-click » Copy :rolleyes:

I think you'll have a tough time finidng a way to paste it. As you mentioned, the clipboardData object can only get or set data as "text" or "url" which is also text.