[RESOLVED] [2008] how to save ClipBoard while copying?

[mahammad()]

HI All

I am crating project and I want to copy an image to clipboard and then paste it in RTB

I used this and it worked

Clipboard.Clear
Clipboard.SetImage("C:/Example.bmp")
document.paste

but however the old contains of the ClipBoard will cleared , so how can I copy and paste this image without lose the clipboard contain

there's two ways I found but I couldn't did them in code and don't know if they can work or not??

1-save the clipboard contain in another object or variable and them after copy paste the image bring them back to the clipboard

2-create a new clipboared

Dim MyClipBoard As Clipboard

but don't know how to paste from this clipboard

help me please and thanks in advance

[.paul.]

try this. it gets the first image from the clipboard, copies + pastes the second image, then copies the first image back to the clipboard

Dim img As Image = Clipboard.GetImage
Clipboard.Clear()
Clipboard.SetImage("C:/Example.bmp")
document.paste()
Clipboard.SetImage(img)

[mahammad()]

thanks .paul. for your answer but you forgot that you must save copied text too and also data and audio , right?

and I have did A small mistake in the code
I typed

Clipboard.Setimage("c:/Example.bmp")

and I can't type the path as string in this method so I use this

Clipboard.Setimage(My.Resources.Examples)

but I think that if I paste the image with another mothod not by Clipboard will be better , What do you see?

thanks

[NStuff42]

Why do you want to store data in the clipboard?

[NStuff42]

And you could do

Clipboard.Setimage(Image.FromFile("c:/Example.bmp"))

[mahammad()]

Why do you want to store data in the clipboard?

do you mean the image that will copied or the old data in the clipboard?
if the clipboard data just I don't want from users to lose their own data when they insert a picture to the file
if the Image simply to paste it using 'RTB.paste()'
and is there other way to insert picture to RTB ?

thanks all

[.paul.]

try this. it should work with any clipboard dataformat

Dim data As Object = Clipboard.GetDataObject
Clipboard.Clear()
Clipboard.SetImage(Image.FromFile("c:\Example.bmp"))
document.Paste()
Clipboard.SetDataObject(data)

[noahssite]

Why do you want to copy an image to the clipboard and then paste it?

What exactly are you doing? Since then you can just place it in a variable.

[mahammad()]

try this. it should work with any clipboard dataformat

Dim data As Object = Clipboard.GetDataObject
Clipboard.Clear()
Clipboard.SetImage(Image.FromFile("c:\Example.bmp"))
document.Paste()
Clipboard.SetDataObject(data)

OK I will try it thnx

[mahammad()]

Why do you want to copy an image to the clipboard and then paste it?

What exactly are you doing? Since then you can just place it in a variable.

I want to copy the image to the clipboard and paste it because it's the only method I know to insert image to RTB

That's all I want to do just inserting image to richtextbox but is there otherway to do that please tell me

thanks

[Deepak Sakpal]

I want to copy the image to the clipboard and paste it because it's the only method I know to insert image to RTB

That's all I want to do just inserting image to richtextbox but is there otherway to do that please tell me

thanks

The article at the below link explains exactly what you need.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/c...=2524851&fr=76

[mahammad()]

Deepak , I didn't find what I want can you show me by code?
do you mean this part of the article?

Inserting an Image
When an image is pasted into a RichTextBox (or WordPad or Microsoft Word), the image is embedded in a Windows Metafile (WMF) and the metafile is placed in the document. The InsertImage method does the same thing, but without using the clipboard. According to the RTF Specification v1.6, it is possible to insert bitmaps, JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs, and Enhanced Metafiles directly into an RTF document without first embedding them in a Windows Metafile. However, while this works with Microsoft Word, if images are not embedded in a Windows Metafile, WordPad and RichTextBox simply ignore them.

thnx

[Deepak Sakpal]

You asked for an alternate way of inserting image in rich text box. That is why i posted that link.

[mahammad()]

Deepak , I didn't found what can help me in this article
but the code .paul. posted (POST#7) was very helpful
the problem has resolved

thanks all