I'd really prefer that the Image Picker frame/fieldset be displayed as a popup when the user actually wants to insert or edit an image into the text, rather than being outside the editing box. A couple of modules do this by hooking to the FCKeditor image properties popup, but it doesn't have to be that exact mechanism. It could be a separate toolbar button and a dedicated Image Picker dialog, scaled down to an appropriate popup size.

I don't know whether the WYSIWYG API or other editors have such mechanisms, so I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it would make for a much nicer interface. When using a WYSIWYG editor, you don't expect to have to look beyond the toolbar to add an image.

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hutch commented

As it stands the nearest imagepicker can come to this is by using a thickbox, see the contribs folder in the latest dev version. If you can point me to a module that does this I might be able to adapt some code.

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Gary Feldman commented

Image Browser and IMCE are two that I've tried, and which integrate with the FCKeditor image properties popup.

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hutch commented

As far as I can see the fckeditor popup button is written as a plugin to fckeditor which integrates image assist module which is itself an addon to the image module. If you want that kind of functionality then find or write a plugin for fckeditor that does it. There is nothing in imagepicker that can do that.

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hutch commented
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