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Re: image posting

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 2:58 PM

  is there a faq about posting/imbedding images within a forum post? Mine keep wanting to post as links, not images.

  Also, can someone link me to the applicable thread for posting unusual images from course play?

  tia

  VaHaLo

• WGTniv 1,788 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 3:49 PM

  How to Post Scorecards & Screenshots - This deals primarily with scorecards, but it works for any screenshot.

  Crazy Shots

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 4:26 PM

  Hello fellas.

  The snipping tool in Windows works great as well. Crazyman2 can give more details on the best way to use it, I'm still learning myself. From what I understand, there's a lot of different free software on the web to take screen shots too.

  I also know WGT has reviewed the idea of posting scorecards through the site. I hope we see it in the road map in the future.

   

  Play well.

• Doublemochaman 2,009 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 4:38 PM

  Wondering why WGT just won't allow us to upload a photo? Maybe with size parameters? Niv?

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 4:51 PM

  Thanks niv,

  I followed that process, but it only posts a link to the image, not the image itself. Should this work through any image hosting site or does WGT have it limited to tinypic only? The particular screenshot was uploaded to picasa web image hosting, and was placed in a public folder with no security or access restrictions.

  I also noticed the 'insert media' option also loaded the default location/URL with a leading

  http://

  meaning that when you post the link properly, it duplicates that. I did delete the duplicate data, but still got only a link - no photo. I'll give tinypic a try as well, but I'm guessing this should work regardless of the image URL.

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 4:52 PM

  Thanks also Richard4168,

  I'm not having an issue getting the screenshot, the Windows software works well enough for what I am trying to do here - I simply can't get the image to insert into the forum post, it is reverting to the link instead for some reason.

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 4:58 PM

  I see said the blind man. Right on VH.

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 5:05 PM

  Niv,

  I just tried tinypic also, and it formatted the link differently (where it is not the exact URL), but it still wont show the image within the thread.

  http://www.wgt.com/forums/p/7979/57916.aspx#57916

   

   

   

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Mon, Feb 15 2010 5:09 PM

  Disregard Niv, just got it.......

   

  Note to self; don't forget to navigate ALL the way to the .jpg listing for the image before linking...............

  And one last off-topic but related question, please. It appears that the 'delete' option for thread posts disappears after a few minutes, leaving it impossible to delete a post long term. is this something that WGT would consider re-thinking? Would be great if the poster had a never ending option to delete his/her own posts, especially when one doesn't find the posts that he/she made under the influence of Jagermeister until 1-2 days later, lol.

   

• Snaike 3,678 Posts

  Tue, Feb 16 2010 10:33 AM

  VanHalenLover:

  Would be great if the poster had a never ending option to delete his/her own posts, especially when one doesn't find the posts that he/she made under the influence of Jagermeister until 1-2 days later, lol.

  Ah, then the rest of us wouldn't have anything to laugh at!!!   =^P