It would be nice to be able to copy a drawing from one question to another. there are cases where someone wants to ask multiple questions all of which relate to the same drawing (e.g. a drawn graph). these users are tempted to ask all their questions in the same thread because of the lack of this feature.

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asnaseer · Answer

when a drawing is first created, it appears as a set of weird looking characters within the response box. making this available for copying after the drawing has been submitted would meet the need.

anonymous · Answer

i tried to do so, but it works only for same question

asnaseer · Answer

@Tomas.A - do you mean you tried to copy the "weird characters" from one question to another and that did not work?

anonymous · Answer

yep

asnaseer · Answer

hmmm... maybe the code gurus of this site can think of a way of achieving this...

anonymous · Answer

Yeah, sadly you can't copy SVG vector data (the odd numbers you're seeing) because the inputs don't support raw HTML in questions. This would be a great feature to see at some point!

asnaseer · Answer

An alternative might be to improve the drawing tool. The reason for copying a drawing across (I think) is because it is so difficult to create one using the current toolset.

espex · Answer

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espex · Answer

The attachment did not load the url as I had hoped, disregard it.

shadowfiend · Answer

Hmm... Interesting. Can you post an example of two questions where you would have wanted to copy the characters from one to the other?

shadowfiend · Answer

Sorry, a drawing from one to the other**

asnaseer · Answer

@shadowfiend: this is the thread of the user I was helping where she wanted to ask more questions on the same topic but didn't want to post them as new questions because she found it difficult to draw the graph in question: http://openstudy.com/users/asnaseer#/updates/4edba9fbe4b01b4ec4925494

shadowfiend · Answer

Got it. That's an excellent use case, thanks.

asnaseer · Answer

yw