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Updates to the Send-A-Smile tool
can you paste into the screenshot editor? sometimes the thing I want to show isn't captured by the screenshot - it's a floating tool tip or it's in a pinned PWA - so I need to paste a screenshot I've already taken from the clipboard Elliot Kirk
dstoreyMicrosoft
MaryB you can't paste as of yet. As Josh mentioned, you can attach a file via the diagnostics data dialog. We'll evaluate if there is an easy way to amend the screenshot tool to support pasting. We do have a prototype that supports this. We want to keep the UI easy to use for the average user, while still supporting power users, so we need to design a way that is clear. Perhaps something on the context menu of the image for example?
- while you're looking at the UI, the 'save and upload' button is rendering outside the border of the dialog for me so I can't click it, so I lose all my edits! if I expand the dialog the button continues to be outside the border of the dialog - it's pushed down so I can only see the top of the button and it's not clickable
- dstorey
MaryB there was an upstream change (to flexbox, I believe) that broke this. We're working on a work around as we speak, while we root cause it to see if it is a Blink regression or a spec change that was implemented recently). On my machine you can click the top of the button. Otherwise, you can use the tab key to get to the button and enter to submit.
- Maybe something like the Windows feedback option that has a button you select to be able to paste something other than the auto captured screenshot?
MaryB as a workaround, you can paste it into paint and then save it so you can attach it as a separate file.
- dstorey hang on, how do you attach the file? I see the text box, the URL field, the email address, the checkbox for diagnostic data and the checkbox to attach the screenshot. if there's an option to attach a file, there's nothing in the UI telling me that I can do that or how to do it.
- I found it from this post, but FYI it is *not obvious* that you use diagnostic data to attach a file - diagnostic data sounds like things that are automatically created. I understand not wanting to overload the UI, but hidden behind a filing cabinet marked beware of the leopard isn't the way to do it!
