Insert image directly -> skip FCK editor

Like the title already says, I want to skip the FCK editor upload window when I upload a photo. I have a TV with the input type image. When I want to insert a photo, I have to click on the insert button that’s at the document and then i have to upload the new photo and then I can finally put my photo on the site.

I wonder if it could be possible to make a TV with a direct option upload option. I click on insert, then I see my hard drive, select a photo and then it uploads automaticly in the assets/images map.

That really doesn’t have anything to do with FCK editor. It’s the mcpuk resource browser; it was originally written to go with FCK editor, true, but it works equally well with TinyMCE or stand-alone, as the TVs use it. If you’re working with images, it’s already tied to the assets/images folder. What would your application do about inserting an image that’s already there?

Anyway, you could check this out http://www.phpletter.com/Demo/Ajax-File--Manager/
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=21068.0

my client doensn’t want that extra step. Now he has to upload an image from a map on the hard drive, and after that select that image again in the upload module. It would be a lot easier if you could select the image from the hard drive, and save it in the map images when you click on the save button of the document...

This is pretty, but I have no idea how you would get it into the Manager. http://www.atwebresults.com/php_ajax_image_upload/

Dear Susan,
About this topic, you said

That really doesn’t have anything to do with FCK editor. It’s the mcpuk resource browser; it was originally written to go with FCK editor, true, but it works equally well with TinyMCE or stand-alone, as the TVs use it. If you’re working with images, it’s already tied to the assets/images folder. What would your application do about inserting an image that’s already there?

Anyway, you could check this out http://www.phpletter.com/Demo/Ajax-File--Manager/
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=21068.0

Is there a way to change the base path from which FCK editor image-resource navigation starts? As a wary noob, I wanted to avoid co-mingling my own images with those provided with the MODx installation. So I placed them in assets/my_images and sub-folders from there. My site works fine. However, when I attempt to Insert an image into a template variable of type=image, FCK editor’s Resources Browser, starting at assets/images, won’t let me click upward to the parent (assets) folder. So I’m unable to navigate to my_images using the Resources Browser

It’s just an annoyance, no harm done, because I can enter a path to the desired image manually, and I can verify that the TV points at the image file. But there is this weird side effect, that the image appears twice in the TV-entry area. One appearance is simply the image. The other appearance incorporates a link to the Resources Browser. A click on it opens Resources Browser once again to assets/images: No help, I still can’t navigate up the tree.

I found the file base path setting in the Manager’s "Tools -> Configuration -> Interfaces & Features -> File base path." Is there a similar setting in the Manager for the Resources Browser or mcpuk? Or perhaps in a config file somewhere? Or is the code hardwired, and so I’m just out of luck?

For the record, I’m running Evo 1.0.4.

Thanks for your thoughts.