I just posted the option 2 link into the box when using the “Sunset” icon (2 icons to the right of the Link icon).
This is the string I posted:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WQCsJX2wxgk/Ujpbi-1yL6I/AAAAAAAAA08/n6cKFT7kySY/s144/Dive%2520pill%2520mod1.JPG
I tried that at LEAST 4-5x. NEVER works.
NOW it works. Sometimes computer can REALLY piss a person off.
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You’re a good man Johnny.
… but we had this conversation already.
The “Insert Image” button requires the URL of the image itself, not the page where the image is displayed (with ads, etc.) by the host (Imagebox, Picasa, Postimage.org, whatever).
The “Insert Link” button is used to create a link to a page. That’s all. That Link you make will be any page, including the one where the host shows your image, or the URL of the image itself. This merely makes a Link and does NOT allow BLF to scale the image in any way, and throws the whole “image” concept into the trash. Not to mention wrecking everyone’s page display!
When your host shows you your image full size (specific steps depend on the host’s middleware), meaning not a thumbnail, right-click on it & see if there’s an option to “View” the image or “Copy” the shortcut or link location. If your browser is configured to show you what’s going on, you can simply select the URL from the Address Bar…
When you have the URL for the image itself, then the “Insert Image” link will work perfectly for you.
Lastly, look at the bottom of the “Insert Image” dialog… That URL is what will come up if you click on the picture. If you want to be nice to us, just paste the same URL in both; but if you want to “drive click traffic” to your host, put the URL they give you in the “URL” box of the “Insert Image” dialog. If you don’t fill in the “URL” box, the cursor won’t make the hand when you point at the picture. BUT, we can still use the right-click=>View Image method to see the full monty.
Don’t forget to set the relative width to 100% or less, PLEASE?
The “Insert Link” button should probably be only used for links like this one to Google’s search for ‘URL’…
Clear as mud? Go back & re-read the OP, with this new knowledge of Uniform Resource Locators and how some URLs point to images and some point to pages that show images. The ones that point to the actual images (they’ll end in “.jpg” or “.gif” or some such, not “.htm”) are the only ones that work in the “Insert Image” button; and BLF’s middleware is not able to successfully display any image via the “Insert Link” button. Just the opposite of what you said.
Whew!
Dim
That is messy.
Guess I’m used to forums that I simply upload the picture from my PC. Easy, no mess.
Links, URL’s, direct links, embedded, 2 separate drop down menus with a dozen option.
KeeRist, I just wanna load a picture. 
I think I did that. I’m pretty sure I did that….and it simply didn’t work. That confused me so I tried variations, which didn’t work also. Thus my frustration.
FWIW I even made a folder in Skydrive, copied the same pictures there, and tried that…without success. But by that time it was late and I was flailing….and failing….and frustrated.
Thank you for the ‘enriched’ lesson.
Seems to work now.
Now, why is that other guy having issues with Dropbox? He obviously knows how to post.
Is is not possible to [Edit] a post and put pictures in?
I just tried to use EXACTLY the SAME process I use to post the test picture above, but it was in the original post of a couple days ago.
I use the EXACT same URL for the image itself, pasted in the “Insert Image” link and it did not work perfectly for me. It didn’t work at all.
When I click [ok] a box pops up that Says [This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved.] and asks me if I want to [Stay on……or……Leave the page].
Neither choice works. Stay does nothing, just sits there with the [Insert Image] menu open.
Leave makes the box disappear, a ghost icon shows up in the post that appears useless.
That’s what I was dealing with the whole time yesterday.
So, I cannot edit that post to add pictures like a new post?
Addendum-a little later:
OK. I [Saved] this posting. Now I came back later (actually closed the forum to make sure) and did EXACTLY the same thing I tried in the original thread.
I think I’ve demonstrated I can make it work here. I’m not doing anything different there.
Why does it work in this thread, and not in the one I want to post it in [New cheap 26650 diving light at DX] post #46?
NEVER MIND - see post #28 below.
You should be able to. I don't get the "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave" message. I don't understand.
-Garry
Since I COULD do it here, and NOT do it there, including editing and adding pictures in this thread I came to the conclusion there must have been some ‘hidden code’ mucking it up from my early failed attempts.
I copied the text, deleted the post, and made a new post….It worked.
Stuff like that is crazy making.
Glad you could figure it out!
-Garry
Have a little too much coffee this morning? :bigsmile:
Yes, we’ve had the conversation before, and we doubtless will again. Hopefully your post will help a few of them avoid the frustration flydiver experienced. 
Wait… That was you??? Sorry. Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up magic mushrooms!
Coincidentally, that’s “just an expression” I use… But there’s that nagging feeling of deja-vu…
Thanks for understanding.
Dim
LOL! No, you haven’t had it with me. Perhaps I should have been more specific. I used “we” to refer to all of us here on BLF. The “how to post an image” question is one of the first ones I ever answered on BLF, and it’s likely one of the most often asked questions. It continues to pop up regularly, despite the many good how-to posts on the subject.
and again, Thank You Dim! It's been very helpful to be able to control the addition of pics, I have yet to get a mouseover to work, but am fixing to try yet one more time....
Edit: It's always something though. I can use the simple post editor and post a picture with the percentage sizing, adding a direct link for a click to enlarge option OR I can use the advanced editor do a mouse-over. But I cannot do both. And once I have switched to advanced, it's not letting me easily switch back to simple. I logged out. I cleared my cache, logged back in (twice) to no avail, still stuck in the advanced editor and cannot add the optional link to enable a click to enlarge functionality. Why must it be so mindboggingly difficult?
That one I know, from personal pain.
The Root Cause is the tendency of people who hire programmers — non-technical, nevermind illiterate of programming languages — of demanding irrelevant BS like piss tests, wallpaper, how pretty their resume was, etc.; instead of demanding Logic, Reason, & Math skills and an honorable Work Ethic.
It’s a simple Calculus. Irrelevant concerns lead to irrelevant decisions, but there’s no one there to correct them, since most people have been led to believe “it works on your PC, it must be my fault”!. Users don’t cause errors, they discover them. Getting you guys to believe it’s your fault was the greatest trick any code-monkey ever pulled!
I wasted huge amounts of time (apparently) learning how to write excellent, bulletproof, efficient code in a variety of languages… Now I have to move overseas to get to use any of that to earn my keep.
Bottom line, when it ain’t working, just DON’T FORGET: It Ain’t You! Just because you find a bug, doesn’t mean you spawned it! Push it back to the guy who wrote it to fix.
(Yes, the subtle hint here is, if we can somehow get the BLF middleware coders to process images in a consistent manner — no matter whether linked through the “Link” button or the “Image” button — it’s a real “win-win” because everyone who uses this middleware is having the same problem, which, if fixed, would count as a “major enhancement” by the Marketeering Department.)
Each “image” is 2 shots from a 21MP camera, so yeah a bit over 21MB each for the double wide shot. It’s not just flashlights that I like powered up! 
You should see the RAW files!
But yeah, not a good file for a mouse-over. I’ll kill it em off or substitute the pics. Sorry bout that.
Clicked it to see what you’re talking about and had the full image in less than 2 seconds.
I know we’re a world of I-want-it-and-I-want-it-now, but some things just have to be considered to have their limits. Like “smart” phones. I guess if I used one, I’d know their limitations.
Removing pics….
Edit: So now it’s YOUR posts causing the delays. lol
Mouseover comparisons between the HD2010 vs M3 and Stock S2200 vs Modified K3 the left side is zoomed in at 105mm, the right side is 24mm to show beam pattern.
Since the ability to go look at it full sized for detail is not present in a mouseover, when I know I’m going to do the mouseover I need to downsize the pictures dramatically. These are still larger than they need to be by 3x. I took em from 22MB to 1.75MB at 3076 wide….wasn’t thinking that they wouldn’t be linked. A 1024px, is ample and then some for a mouseover.
But what about switching from simple to advanced mode? I wonder why we can’t put the optional direct link in when in the advanced mode, or just use the original insert picture icon (it doesn’t work in advanced mode). This time, leaving the thread and going back into my account to switch to simple actually worked….when I came back in I’m no longer in advanced mode as I was previously.
So now it’s easy to link an image while sizing it to fit the screen, like this one…
This image is almost 12MB, a click will open in a new window, another click will show full sized. So does this mean that even to see the 45% version in this thread, the forum has to download the 11.7MB full sized image? I left this one full sized again to figure out what’s going on here, normally I resize to about 8MP and some 3MB.
Sorry, forgot to answer interest…from left, the HD2010, the K3, MagLight with 5xXR-E at 8.4V, S2200, M3
Okay. URLs… In the “Insert Image” dialog, if you put the URL of a smaller (filesize in bytes) image, that has all the visual information in it, but not, say, the JPEG compression - you know how to shrink files - (But leave its ‘x’ and ‘y’ as-is so it’s super-clear in “100%”…) put that in the “Image” URL at the top, then the URL to the ginormous one in the lower URL box…
It will mean carrying two “copies” of the image, but the smaller “thumbnail” should load quicker & spare our poor “smart”-phone BLF Buckaroos.
Having the “2S2P” pix like that makes “beamshots” suddenly interesting to me…
(Edit) BTW!!! Those swirly lines in your beams?
BUGS???
I was told (on here somewhere) that bugs aren’t attracted to LEDs… ???
Quote the message for the details, but the parameter is “onclick”.
As in: onclick=“this.src=‘http://budgetlightforum.com/sites/budgetlightforum.com/files/pictures/picture-5670.gif’;”
So, just like a forward-clicky mouseover, no?
An interesting side note: the “width=”100%“” keyword constrains them all. So after all that fuss over size, look how stinking easy it turned out to be! Sheesh!
PS: Thanks for helping me learn new stuff!
(and don’t forget “onmouseout” to reset the thumbnail (or not, as you see I did not). MANY thanks to our Sun-God, Helios- for cluing me in to that cute little trick!)
