Add the option to select a picture, edit it in an external editor (configurable) and save it back

[1001QAdotNET]

The default OneNote options to edit a picture are rather limited.
Not sure if this was requested before and if this is possible but it would be nice to add the option to select a picture, edit it in an external editor (configurable) and save it back

[stevencohn]

What, OneMore's image tools aren't good enough!? I'm offended.

No I'm just kidding. Yes, I've thought about this one too. I often use paint.net as a lightweight but powerful editor. The only catch is the "... and save it back" part of your request. The only way to actually get it back into OneNote is to copy paste it from your external editor, overwriting the original image.

[stevencohn]

Adding Open Image With command with configurable viewer, defaulting to mspaint. You'll need to manually copy and paste the updated image into OneNote but this gets you half-way there.

[1001QAdotNET]

Ok great, yes I too use paint.net

[1001QAdotNET]

It should be possible to automatically insert the new picture if the user hits Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C while in paint.net (or any combination of keys that copies the edited image to clipboard) and after that OneMore could be able to see when the child process closes (can it see it?) and when that is done access the clippboard programmatically and paste the image in place.
Does this work ?

[stevencohn]

Theoretically. But not really. There are way too many failure cases. The simplest of which is that the user subsequently navigates away from the page containing the image; you wouldn't want OneNote jumping back and forth in the middle of what you're doing just to update the image (it can't be done in the background, and no, I'm not interested in using the REST APIs because that is a whole other root ball of problem to sync with the Desktop)

There's also no way to determine if what's on the clipboard is what the updated image or some other misc copied image. So that could result in data loss....

[1001QAdotNET]

well you do not replace the image edited
just paste it below it and let the user delete the old one if he or she is happy with the new one

[stevencohn]

You've already pressed Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C... it's just a Ctrl+V keypress away! :-)

There's quite a bit of coding, error checking required here. The climb isn't worth the view IMO

[1001QAdotNET]

The climb isn't worth the view I love the metaphor
OK what you implemented is good enough, I will start using it and report back here if I see any issues. No news good news you can close this one if you wish and I can report bugs separately

[stevencohn]

Cheers