Two things in Clipboard

[vbPoet]

Is there any way to store two different things in Clipboard like text & picture at the same time safely..?

[chemicalNova]

You can't store both. Try selecting the text of a webpage with a few picture on it and copying it, it won't work. The only way is to probably hook the Control+V and Paste commands and set each item to the clipboard before pasting.

Phreak

[vbPoet]

You can't store both. Try selecting the text of a webpage with a few picture on it and copying it, it won't work. The only way is to probably hook the Control+V and Paste commands and set each item to the clipboard before pasting.

Phreak

hmm phReaAk
it means Clipboard cannot be multidimensional in any sense.
if i will hook paste commands then problem will remain the same that i wan to different things at a time in Clipboard Object.

[chemicalNova]

Technically, they wouldn't be on the clipboard at all. I'd have a program with picturebox arrays and string arrays. When the user wants to copy both a picture and text to the clipboard, they are instead moved to the pictureboxes and arrays. Then when you hook the keys, whenever they paste, you paste each item, 1 by 1, moving them from arrays/pictureboxes to the clipboard, and pasting.

Phreak

[vbPoet]

Ok u mean i can solve this problem by using array of picture boxes and strings.

[chemicalNova]

Quite possibly. I might type you up a quick example (- the windows keys hooks), bare with me..

Phreak

[vbPoet]

yup it could be helpful

[chemicalNova]

Something like this. It's basic, but you can add control arrays for the pictures, if you want more than 1 picture "on the clipboard".

Phreak

[vbPoet]

yup it proves to be helpful.
Now there is one problem

[chemicalNova]

...and that problem would be?

Phreak

[vbPoet]

oh sorry to mention



it is that
clipboard object is already occupied by another application .
Now i want to copy my text or picture into clipboard and want to retrieve it as well while keeping anything which is in clipboard object before i used clipboard.
thx phReAk for contributing.

[chemicalNova]

In that case, just check what is on the clipboard, then store it.

Dim cbFMT As Boolean, cbFMT2 As Boolean
 
cbFMT = Clipboard.GetFormat(vbCFText) 'is it text?
cbFMT2 = Clipboard.GetFormat(vbCFBitmap) 'is it a picture?
If (cbFMT) Then
    'it is text!
    StoreString = Clipboard.GetText
ElseIf (cbFMT2) Then
    'it is a picture
    StorePictureBox.Picture = Clipboard.GetData
End If

..paste your things, then reset the old contents back to the clipboard.

Phreak

[penagate]

oh sorry to mention



it is that
clipboard object is already occupied by another application .
Now i want to copy my text or picture into clipboard and want to retrieve it as well while keeping anything which is in clipboard object before i used clipboard.
thx phReAk for contributing.

Set up another variable (or two a string and a picture) for storing the contents of the clipboard before you put yours in.

[vbPoet]

thx phReAk
Ok if it would be string i will store it in string variable..
But if it is neither picture nor text .. then ....??
would picturebox.picture will work in that situation ...?

[vbPoet]

did u understand my last post ..?

[chemicalNova]

What else would it be? You mean, files?

Phreak

[vbPoet]

yup it could be files or movies or sound or anything anything ......

[vbPoet]

Some time strange thing happen to me..
if i have not opened Vb IDE and copied some source code.. then open IDE and want to paste it ... Nothing apperars and PASTE button is disabled.
So i have to copy source while keeping Open IDE and then i m able to paste it..
So what is that ......



Is it related to my previous post theme ..?

[vbPoet]

I have modified it little.

Check third line under command1 click event ...
and do the following.
copy some text from RTB and then ctrl +v it ..
and then click COPY TO CLIPBOARD ..
again when you will ctrl +V it will not display any picture instead it will display old text which u have copied by ctrl +c ..
i want to know
what 3rd line under command1 click event is doing in that case ..
y it is not working ..

[chemicalNova]

I think its because of this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Picture2.Picture = Picture1.Picture
str = Text1.Text
Clipboard.SetData Picture2.Picture, vbBitmap
End Sub
 
Private Sub Command2_Click()
Clipboard.SetData Picture2.Picture, vbBitmap
SendMessage RichTextBox1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, 0&
Clipboard.Clear
Clipboard.SetText str
SendMessage RichTextBox1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, 0&
End Sub

vbBitmap won't do it, it needs to be..

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Picture2.Picture = Picture1.Picture
str = Text1.Text
Clipboard.SetData Picture2.Picture, [b]vbCFBitmap[/b]
End Sub
 
Private Sub Command2_Click()
Clipboard.SetData Picture2.Picture, [b]vbCFBitmap[/b]
SendMessage RichTextBox1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, 0&
Clipboard.Clear
Clipboard.SetText str
SendMessage RichTextBox1.hwnd, WM_PASTE, 0&, 0&
End Sub

Phreak

[chemicalNova]

Also, having a Clipboard.Clear statement in the Copy to Clipboard sub will help:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Picture2.Picture = Picture1.Picture
str = Text1.Text
[b]Clipboard.Clear[/b]
Clipboard.SetData Picture2.Picture, vbCFBitmap
End Sub

Phreak

[RobCrombie]

Some time strange thing happen to me..
if i have not opened Vb IDE and copied some source code.. then open IDE and want to paste it ... Nothing apperars and PASTE button is disabled.
So i have to copy source while keeping Open IDE and then i m able to paste it..
So what is that ......

The developers of VB (or the VB IDE ?), built in (or left out) something.
There is a bug, which means it does not interact correctly with the clipboard.
I have noticed many times, that things aint there (in Clipboard) when I expect them.

[chemicalNova]

It works fine for me when I made the changes listed above.

Phreak

[RobCrombie]

I haven't been following the thread.
The bit I noticed and replied to, I suspected was an observation not directly related to this thread. I had seen confirmation that a bug existed, and I was just pointing that out.
I think it was not related to the solution you are talking about.

[chemicalNova]

Ah ok. Has anyone checked the M$ website lately? Is there a service pack for the IDE or something to fix this bug? Sorry for the un-relevance (sp?) to this thread.

Phreak

[vbPoet]

Anyways it was related to my problem ...Thx for telling me that it is M$ another BUG..

[vbPoet]

Nopz phReAk it didn't work.. same problem is persisting...
it is pasting old text

[chemicalNova]

I need a step by step of what you are doing to create the problem. What I thought you meant I fixed.

Step by step

Phreak

[vbPoet]

It is step by step

I have modified it little.

Check third line under command1 click event ...
and do the following.
copy some text from RTB and then ctrl +v it ..
and then click COPY TO CLIPBOARD ..
again when you will ctrl +V it will not display any picture instead it will display old text which u have copied by ctrl +c ..
i want to know
what 3rd line under command1 click event is doing in that case ..
y it is not working ..

***********
Now i have replace VBBitmap to vbCFBitmap ....
but same problem is persisting ...

[vbPoet]

More step by step ...........?? lolz

[vbPoet]

yup it could be files or movies or sound or anything anything ......

Does PictureBox wise enough to handle all these things...?