Help with Pix & Posts

[Frilf]

Hey,

I've got a couple of images from an upcoming release that I want to post. However, the

 

[EricNoah]

Two ways to do it...

1) if the image is already online somewhere (i.e. on your website, for instance) then you can use the tags, putting the http address between img and /img tags. Or you could make a link using the url and /url tags.

2) if the image is not online but it's in a web-compatible format (.jpg, gif), you can "attach file" (see below where you type your message) and it should display in the message. There's a file size limit.

 

[Frilf]

Thanks, Eric.

The images are on the web. I must be using the wrong URL or something. I might just attach them or provide a link. What about attaching two or more files?

Ian

 

[EricNoah]

You can only attach one file per message, so you'd have to post two messages to get two files displayed (they can be in the same thread).

 

[EricNoah]

I'm gonna try one from your website.

This was using the img tags.

this is a link

 

[EricNoah]

Ok so the link worked but the img didn't. I suspect it might be the parentheses.

Let's try one from your site that doesn't use parentheses.

 

[Frilf]

Well, the link works, anyway...

 

[Frilf]

I'll try it again without parentheses. That might be goofing up the vB logic somehow. Thanks, Eric...

(Edit: It works. The pix are now up on the BoTDE announcement thread.)