Clipboard - images?

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I have Windows IE users who would like to hit Alt-PrntScrn to capture an image of a defect and then Ctrl-V (or some button or link or whatever) to paste it into a note to support. I spent a few minutes doing this in Java, maybe something that could be in an applet, but I'd like to do it all in JavaScript. Maybe do some Ajax magic to send the image to the server and then insert an IMG tag into the current page. Any thoughts? Is this possible?

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You will not be able to do it with Ajax since that does not support binary and you are going to have to have a reference to a file (that is saved) in order to do an upload.

So you are out of luck with the clipboard and JavaScript.

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Bummer. Users do this "paste image" thing with Lotus Notes today and we would have to give them something pretty close to that to get them off Notes and into our app. We already have applets. Maybe another one won't hurt.

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