can i add an image to a flowchart diagram?

Question

Hello,

I have some images that i would like to use in a flowchart diagram,
can you please how i can add them?

thanks in advance for your help

Answer 1

Drag & Drop

- Start yEd and load your grafpml - file
- Open Explorer and navigate to your images
- click on your favorite image and hold the mouse-button down
- pull the image into yEd and release the mouse-button

- thats it

(Sorry for my bad english)

Comments

Hello again,

Thank a lot for your answer your solution works very well,

do not worry about your English it is perfect understandable, as you

probably noticed from my question i am not a native speaker.

Thus thanks again for your help,

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I tried to drag and drop my image into yED, but it didn't work.

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it worked for me like a sharm, which kind of image are you using. I have tried right now with .png and it worked.

it can read some type of images.

good luck

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I use png also. But when I dragged my image file into yEd, nothing happened. Could you provide some screenshots? Thanks before.

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sorry  but i guess i can't attach screenshots in here. I have tried it now with also .jpg,

i am not saying that you do not know how to do drag and drop but what i am going to tell what i am actually doing.

first, i open Yed and create (or open ) a new project  then i open the folder where my picture is. I then push the left mouse button on the desired picture  and  while holding i drag and drop it in the work space where you usually drag and drop items from palette.

hope it helps,

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I even try to reinstall it again, but still the same. I don't have any idea what's wrong. Anyway, thanks for helping, really appreciate it.

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no problem, sorry i could not help more.
By the way, have you ever about gliffy[dot]com, in case you do not manage to solve your problem with yed, maybe you should take a look on it. It is free and a cool web service. but you need internet to work on your project. Thus, Yed is better but maybe gliffy may do the job for you.

good luck,

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Adding custom images to yEd is described in this manual section:
  http://yed.yworks.com/support/manual/custom_nodes.html

If drag and drop doesn't work, please try adding the images to the palette like described in the manual and upload one of the images that don't work in this forum (you can add images to top-level answers but not to comments). We will then investigate that's going wrong.

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It works now. But the drag and drop function still doesn't work for me. Fyi, I'm running yEd v3.9.2 on Ubuntu 10.04. Thank you for your help.

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Drag and drop is not implemented for linux!

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That explain the problem. Thanks.

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It works now on xubuntu! :-)

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it works very well

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It used to work for me, but not anymore.
Both drag and drop and adding a picture to the palette stopped working recently. Now the "Import symbols" button is not clickable anymore. Has this feature been disabled?

I'm running yEd on the latest MacOS.

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There have been no changes in the way image import works in yEd. The information in How can I use my own node symbols in yEd? is still correct for the current version of yEd (which is 3.19 at the time of this writing).

Which version of yEd are you using (see "Help" -> "About")?
On which version of Java are you running yEd (see "Help" -> "About")?
On which version of macOS exactly are you running yEd (there are currently at least two "latest" versions)?

When you used image import successfully the last time, was your macOS already on the version it is now?

Anyways, you can try to reset yEd to its factory defaults, it does sometimes help with problems like this. To do that, delete your yEd profile directory (see "Help" -> "About" for the project directory location).
A word of warning, though: Deleting the profile directory will also delete all custom palette sections and all properties mapper configurations. If you do have either of these you do not want to lose, move the profile directory to a new location instead of deleting it. This way you can restore your old stuff in case deleting did not help.

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Great. Now my charts rock!