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Copying DataGridView Contents To Clipboard

by miteleda

Copy DataGridView contents to clipboard regardless of current selection.

Paste Table Data into an Editor Then Quickly Format for Good Appearance

by RedDk

Use ALT+SHIFT to "block" select text (thinking of justifying columnar relations of words/data/etc. so the visual appearance is perfectly tabular) ... and TAB (TAB+SHIFT to undo) to MOVE SELECTION right (and left) ...

Windows Clipboard Formats

by Jochen Arndt

An overview of clipboard and Drag & Drop object formats

Drag & Drop Images and Drop Descriptions for MFC Applications

by Jochen Arndt

Add drag & drop support with drag images and drop descriptions to your MFC applications

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Drag & Drop Images and Drop Descriptions for MFC Applications

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Add drag & drop support with drag images and drop descriptions to your MFC applications

Windows Clipboard Formats

by Jochen Arndt

An overview of clipboard and Drag & Drop object formats

Paste Table Data into an Editor Then Quickly Format for Good Appearance

by RedDk

Use ALT+SHIFT to "block" select text (thinking of justifying columnar relations of words/data/etc. so the visual appearance is perfectly tabular) ... and TAB (TAB+SHIFT to undo) to MOVE SELECTION right (and left) ...

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How to copy image to clipboard in WPF using C# ?

21 Feb 2011 by milantony

Thanks Jaykay832 :-D Your answer was straight forward.double width = image1.ActualWidth; double height = image1.ActualHeight; RenderTargetBitmap bmpCopied = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)Math.Round(width), (int)Math.Round(height), 96, 96,...

Copying DataGridView Contents To Clipboard

9 Nov 2012 by miteleda

Copy DataGridView contents to clipboard regardless of current selection.

Check with C# if the clipboard is really empty and no any format is there

1 Apr 2016 by Jochen Arndt

According to the documentation at Clipboard.GetDataObject Method (System.Windows)[^] it should be NULL when there are no data:Quote:A data object that enables access to the entire contents of the system Clipboard, or null if there is no data on the Clipboard.If this is not NULL, you may...

Check with C# if the clipboard is really empty and no any format is there

2 Apr 2016 by CHill60

Instead of using the Clipboard.Getxxxx methods use the Clipboard.ContainsData method.You need to pass this a parameter which is the textual description of the DataFormat you are looking for.This function first enumerates all of the DataFormats and then checks the clipboard for data in that...

Check with C# if the clipboard is really empty and no any format is there

1 Apr 2016 by Matt T Heffron

Slight improvement on Solution 3 by @CHill60It looks like the .Aggregate(...) could be more efficient as .Any(...), like:using System.Linq;...public static bool IsClipboardEmpty(){ var dataFormats = typeof(DataFormats).GetFields(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static) ...

Clipboard Operation with C#

2 Oct 2013 by Eduard Keilholz

I think you'll have to use some p/invoke:[DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]public static extern IntPtr SetClipboardViewer(IntPtr hWndNewViewer);See this [^] article on how to set up a clipboard monitor in c#. Basically you register your app as a clipboard viewer...

How do I save the first text in a textbox and not overwrite it C# .NET (simple)

18 Jun 2016 by Mehdi Gholam

Instead of a timer use the Clipboard WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE: .net - How to monitor clipboard content changes in C#? - Stack Overflow[^]Also save the last text in a variable and recheck that and the current text from the clipboard and do your stuff if it has changed.

How to distinguish between CUT and COPY

23 Apr 2018 by Michael Haephrati

When GetClipboardData() is used to access the data captured by the Clipboard, is there an API call or flag to distinguish between a Copy action (CTRL+C) and a Cut action (CTRL+X)? What I have tried: Searching the web. Generally speaking, I couldn't find any documentation about the difference...

How to distinguish between CUT and COPY

23 Apr 2018 by OriginalGriff

No. You can't tell, because the application which places it on the clipboard: 1) Doesn't tell the clipboard anything other than "here is some data, it's this type" 2) Doesn't have to obey "normal" cut or copy rules at all: it could for example move text to an archive, and copy it to the...

How to distinguish between CUT and COPY

23 Apr 2018 by Jochen Arndt

As said in solution 1 and the comments: There is no general way to know what had happened on the source side. But there is one exception: Delete-on-Paste Operations These are used when cutting files (e.g. from within the Windows Explorer). With those the source requests the target to get...

C# how to copy all elements in array to clipboard?

6 Feb 2022 by OriginalGriff

Try: Clipboard.Clear(); Clipboard.SetText( string.Join("\n", trueBenchScoreList.Select(t => t.ToString())));

Clipboaard Contents Save automataically

8 May 2012 by OriginalGriff

"Can We do this with out using any programming"No.It isn't even that easy to do with programming!You would have to hook into the global Cut and Copy operations (which may not be possible, I've never had to try) or the global Keyboard handler to detect when a clipboard operation is...

CEdit (Ctrl + X, C, V, Z, A) (Clipboard functions)

13 May 2012 by Mr. Tomay

BOOL CEditEx::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg){ // TODO: Add your specialized code here and/or call the base class // Intercept Ctrl + Z (Undo), Ctrl + X (Cut), Ctrl + C (Copy), Ctrl + V (Paste) and Ctrl + A (Select All) // before CEdit base class gets a hold of them. if...

Clipboard Operation with C#

3 Oct 2013 by BillWoodruff

I suggest you learn about GlobalHooks in .NET: [^].If the end-user triggers your GlobalHook action by copying some text, and then pressing some keyboard combination: you have the great advantage that you don't have to parse every single number the user copies, and your code doesn't have to...

Send key in C#, send: (Control+C) or order copy?

9 Dec 2014 by OriginalGriff

In C#, you don't "order Windows to copy" to the clipboard: instead, you use the Clipboard class[^] to copy things onto it:Clipboard.SetText(myTextBox.Text);But be very careful: if you start overwriting the clipboard content without the user's knowledge, your software will stand a very,...

How to Set the Text font to the system clipboard when Text copyed from my WPF application to MS Word

7 Jan 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

You can often find the answer just by reading the documentation for the class you are using: Clipboard.SetText Method (String, TextDataFormat) (System.Windows.Forms)[^].

^C not working for file copy in C#

14 Jun 2016 by Simon_Whale

Your best off using the clipboard class. Have a read of this Clipboard handling with .NET[^]

Paste Table Data into an Editor Then Quickly Format for Good Appearance

8 Feb 2017 by RedDk

Use ALT+SHIFT to "block" select text (thinking of justifying columnar relations of words/data/etc. so the visual appearance is perfectly tabular) ... and TAB (TAB+SHIFT to undo) to MOVE SELECTION right (and left) ...

How to find the names of all files from the clipboard

25 Apr 2017 by Jochen Arndt

See the documentation: DragQueryFile function (Windows)[^]. Call DragQueryFile first with iFile set to 0xFFFFFFFF. That call will return the number of file names. Then use a loop to get each file name: UINT fileCount = DragQueryFile(hDrop, 0xffffffff, NULL, 0); for (UINT i = 0; i

What exactly WM_paste message use for?

15 Jul 2018 by Richard MacCutchan

Read the description again: “an application sends ...”. That means that your application can send this message to a control in order to let the control know that there is data on the clipboard. The message is not a general notification that you can capture.

What exactly WM_paste message use for?

15 Jul 2018 by Jochen Arndt

The WM_PASTE message is an application internal message. It might be send for example to the active control window when choosing the Paste option from the Edit menu of an application, the context menu of a control window, or upon the Ctrl-V / Shift-Ins accelerators. Besides a few execpetions,...

Getwindowtext function returns null always

12 Aug 2018 by Richard MacCutchan

The GetWindowText function (Windows)[^] requires the second parameter to be the address of a memory buffer. You are passing s StringBuilder reference.

Crazy, lazy question, excel paste from clipboard

24 Jun 2022 by Dave Kreskowiak

Yeah, you just drop a "\n" (assuming C#) into the string you want to put on the clipboard.

Crazy, lazy question, excel paste from clipboard

25 Jun 2022 by 0x01AA

Finally I found the solution. Simply surrounding the 'cell data' with a double quotation mark is enough and Excel will handle them as one cell. string clipboardData= "\"Col A\"\t\"Col B\n2cnd\"\t\"Col C\"\r\n"; If you copy that to clipboard...

Issue in ckeditor 5 after submit

15 Jan 2024 by Richard MacCutchan

This is not a programming issue, you need to get help from CKEditor 5 | Powerful Framework with Modular Architecture[^].

How to paste standard file to the disk from Clipboard

15 Apr 2010 by gihanatt

Hi,I got a embedded file in a word document (Insert-->File). And I want to save that to a file to the disk. So far I copied the InlineShape to the clipboard. Then used following to get the file.IDataObject data = Clipboard.GetDataObject();object fileobj;if...

How to paste standard file to the disk from Clipboard

18 Apr 2010 by The Manoj Kumar

Could you explain your question a little bit more and also can you please post your exception details as well. That would help us to identify the root cause.

Clip boar imports

13 Sep 2010 by shetty ramesh

I am a beginner I would like to import data from the clipboard which was copied from the excel range and save in to the datagrid.I would like it validated in the datagrid and posted to the data to the tables.How I can achieve this in vb.netPlease help Ramesh

Clip boar imports

13 Sep 2010 by Dalek Dave

Rather than do it from a clipboad, do it directly...see here[^]For Clipboard...see here[^].Now the second link is for c#, but the principals are the same and it should be easy to convert.

Why does my screengrabber grab the transient highlight from the menu item that invoked it?

18 Oct 2010 by kavithaprajeeth

I am trying to copy the image to clipboard. I am using the following code. void test::OnEditCopyImage() // Copy to the Clipboard.{ bool clipboardAcceptedData = true; // Capture the window to a bitmap. COXScreenGrabber ScreenGrabber; RECT rect; ...

Why does my screengrabber grab the transient highlight from the menu item that invoked it?

18 Oct 2010 by Shog⁹

Gotta assume that the problem is in COXScreenGrabber, not this code. If it's actually grabbing part of the screen buffer instead of rendering your window, then anything above it will tend to get caught... Including a quickly-fading image of the selected menu item. If possible, investigate...

How to copy image to clipboard in WPF using C# ?

20 Feb 2011 by milantony

How to copy image to clipboard in WPF using C#?I've an image control with an image.Need help to copy image from image control to clipboard. :) I tried some code from google, those are not working. :sigh: Technology: WPF, C#.Net

How to copy image to clipboard in WPF using C# ?

20 Feb 2011 by Ramalinga Koushik

this[^] and Clipboard[^]might help you.

How to copy image to clipboard in WPF using C# ?

21 Feb 2011 by Abhinav S

In addition, have a look at this[^] tutorial.

How to log only pasted files in shell?

23 Jun 2011 by Zubin 2

Whenever any user copy files/folders, A HDROP data is placed on the clipboard.I registered my window as a clipboard viewer, Now whenever i get WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD notification, i check for HDROP on the clipboard(using GetClipboardData() and I get the list of copied files to clipboard(using...

Clipboard and External Images

29 Jun 2011 by taffholter

I am having an unexpected challenge. I am trying to copy an image from an external source (i.e. Explorer/MSPaint/IE) into a vs2010 C# app Win Form image control. I would assume this is not an uncommon feature. If I copy the image onto the clipboard from the C# app I have no issues accessing...

Clipboard and External Images

29 Jun 2011 by Dave Kreskowiak

The biggest cause of this that I've found is the coder expecting there to be an image on the clipboard only to find, with further digging, a filepath instead.You can build a tool really quick to see what data formats are on the clipboard. Just create a Windows Forms app with a Button and a...

Clipboard and External Images

6 Jul 2011 by Tom Affholter

As it turns out, when you copy an image to the clipboard, be it in Explorer, off a Web page, etc., you are not copying the image itself but rather the path to the image. It never places an image on the clipboard. I am surprized there is not much nore written on this. Once I looked for the...

Copying UTF-8 data to Clipboard

1 Oct 2011 by geoff7

Hi,I'm trying to put Unicode UTF-8 data directly onto the Windows clipboard. Why does this not work:HGLOBAL hGlobal = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE | GMEM_ZEROINIT, 16);unsigned char *px = (unsigned char*) GlobalLock(hGlobal);//a 3 byte UTF-8 character:px[0] = 0xe0;px[1] =...

Copying UTF-8 data to Clipboard

1 Oct 2011 by Ray Radin

CF_UNICODETEXT states that the data you're passing is a Unicode text, which is 2 bytes per character.UTF-8 is multibyte per character.They are not the same.Convert your UTF-8 text to Unicode first, or use CF_TEXT instead.

Issue with copy to clipboard for iframe

16 Dec 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Anything on the Web page can be copied to the clipboard.If you want to do it programmatically, 1) think twice if you really want it; normally, the users themselves can do it better; 2) if you are decisively want it and still have a problem, go back to your question, tag your technology,...

Issue with copy to clipboard for iframe

16 Dec 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

In response to clarified question:For this purpose, I would use jQuery library which you can freely download from http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery[^].This is a jQuery plug-in good to copy any data to the client's clipboard:...

CEdit (Ctrl + X, C, V, Z, A) (Clipboard functions)

26 Jan 2012 by Mr. Tomay

When subclassing from a CEdit class, the default clipboard functions (Ctrl + X, C, V, Z, A) (Using the keyboard input & not the context menu) wont work.How to make it possible in both CDialog based apps & so for CFormView on SDI or MDI apps !?Help me please

Clipboaard Contents Save automataically

8 May 2012 by Ganesh KP

Hi Friends, I have small requirement that I want to save my clipboard contents to some folder when ever I Use the Ctrl+C Command on either a folder or a file or a text in a word document or some thing else. I want to save the clipboard contents automatically so that When ever power is gone,...

How to deal with "locked" clipboard

17 May 2012 by CertNerd

Hello all,I've written a few applications which are meant to enable the user to copy text to their clipboard either just by running the application or by clicking on an element in the application GUI. Most of the time, this works perfectly fine: public static void grab(string text)...

How to deal with "locked" clipboard

17 May 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Please see my comment to the question.One problem I can see immediately is: as your object is always a string, you should use Clipboard.SetText, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ydby206k.aspx[^].From the other hand, if this string carries some special semantic (so, this is some...

OneNote 2010 copy clipboard data

25 Jul 2012 by calebboyd

I am having an issue copying clipboard data from OneNote 2010. I would like to be able to copy the clipboard, serialized it and paste it back in. But it always loses its formatting (OneNote HTML..) so the text and images are not arranged in the way that they were copied. I'm just using the .NET...

Call to IRichEditOle::GetClipboardData method causing memory leak.

19 Aug 2012 by Divine Intellect

Hi, I am using function IRichEditOle::GetClipboardData(CHARRANGE *lpchrg, DWORD reco,LPDATAOBJECT *lplpdataobj) to retrieve a clipboard object for a range in edit control. At this step whenever image is retrieved for the range, I could see an increase of 12MB memory for my application (No...

Is there a way to paste a file from the clipboard to a USB device?

30 Nov 2012 by MR. AngelMendez

Hi all,I am trying to make an app that automatically updates my USB when I plug it in. All is well, I got my program to detect my usb drive when I plug it in and a messagebox prompts the user if they wish to update it.Heres the inner workings of my program. There is a button that the...

Is there a way to paste a file from the clipboard to a USB device?

30 Nov 2012 by OriginalGriff

You could use File.Copy[^]OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();if (ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { string src = ofd.FileName; string dst = src.Replace("C:\\", "D:\\"); File.Copy(src, dst, true); }

Is there a way to paste a file from the clipboard to a USB device?

30 Nov 2012 by André Kraak

These MSDN example should be helpful: How to: Copy, Delete, and Move Files and Folders (C# Programming Guide)[^].The idea is to recursively copy the folder, by first creating the folder at the destination (if needed) and then copy all the files in the source folder to the destination.

WPF DataGrid, Copy to Clipboard after Ctrl+C,OnCopyingRowClipboardContent

13 Dec 2012 by AlexandreN

I am trying to copy to clipboard my custom text data, after Ctrl+CDiverse attempts to use overrideOnCopyingRowClipboardContent(DataGridRowClipboardEventArgs args) or CopingRowClipboardContent event, don't help. Either clipboard gets empty or standard row text, but not what I would like to...

WPF DataGrid, Copy to Clipboard after Ctrl+C,OnCopyingRowClipboardContent

14 Dec 2012 by AlexandreN

Solution was foundYou need to set the ClipboardRowContent property of DataGridRowClipboardEventArgsstatic void dataGrid_CopyingRowClipboardContent(object sender, DataGridRowClipboardEventArgs e){ e.ClipboardRowContent.Clear(); e.ClipboardRowContent.Add(new...

clipboard globalunlock windows

9 Jan 2013 by jamescaunt

AddClipboardFormatListener(this->GetSafeHwnd());if (IsClipboardFormatAvailable(CF_UNICODETEXT)) { if (::OpenClipboard(this->m_hWnd)) { HGLOBAL hg_clipdata = ::GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT); LPTSTR lptstr; lptstr = (LPTSTR)::GlobalLock(hg_clipdata);...

clipboard globalunlock windows

9 Jan 2013 by Sandeep Mewara

You have reposted the same question in detail here: clipboard globalunlock windows[^]Next time onwards, please use 'Improve Question' link to edit/update the question. I am removing this one.

Copying A Skype Message

30 Jan 2013 by Richard MacCutchan

The expression SKYPE4COMLib.TChatMessageStatus.cmsSent is a boolean, so it returns true or false. You need to copy the actual message content from wherever you have saved it.

Copying A Skype Message

30 Jan 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I found: https://developer.skype.com/accessories/skype4com[^].It has the class ChatMessage with the implemented interface IChatMessage. As I can see, this class and interface represent the message, nothing else. And it has the member BSTR Body which you probably need. Do with this...

DataObject.GetData() returns an object of type MemoryStream anyway?

7 Mar 2013 by supernorb

I don't know why the method GetData() requires a parameter of Type, I thought the Type is to specify that of which class/type the object should be. I have a structure called GraphicsPathWrap, it's made serializable by implementing ISerializable. I tried the following copy...

Clipboard: copy data from Excel to gridview

16 Apr 2013 by Kenneth Haugland

I think your problem is here:List cellsList = new List(); string[] cells = lines[x].Split('\t'); cellsList.AddRange(cells); table.Add(cellsList);In order to create the table you should perhaps do something lik:string[] lines =...

Clipboard: copy data from Excel to gridview

16 Apr 2013 by babu saravanan

Try thisplease refer following linkDataGridView-Copy-and-Paste

Clipboard: copy data from Excel to gridview

16 Apr 2013 by jessicachen12

The solution is quite simple, I just add e.Handle like this :PasteData(Clipboard.GetText());e.Handle = true;this means that all enters with be handled by humain.In fact, the problem comes from the fact that it not only created table and copy data from the table to gridview, but...

I have a Clipboard GetText Problem about MessageBox

24 Jul 2013 by Member 9522119

As you see my timer check if user click ctrl+ mouse middle, after timer1() send ctrl+c keys to active program and get selected text to textbox1 but sometimes get some my MessageBoxs text content why? How can I solve this problemSuch as Textbox1 text content ...

[REPOST] Possible to use copy to clipboard onlaod instead of click?

25 Jul 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I don't see why not. Just put something in the clipboard in the handler of the onload event and see what happens.—SA

Image from Clipboard

11 Sep 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

In JavaScript:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6413036/get-current-clipboard-content[^],http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2176861/javascript-get-clipboard-data-on-paste-event-cross-browser[^]."In C#" this is always possible, but it would mean you are getting clipboard information form...

Clipboard Operation with C#

2 Oct 2013 by Yesudasan Moses

Hi friends,I am running a hidden windows application made in C#.If the user copies a number from anywhere, A window Popup will come and show "Call ######?" with a Call and Cancel Button.... public partial class Form1 : Form { string LastClipBoardText = ""; private...

Zeroclipboard multiple instances

2 Dec 2013 by Sixty_vr

Good morning, i have using Zeroclipboard to copy information of 2 iframes to clipboard and i can't do it. I want that if i click in iframe "a" it copy the information of that iframe to clipboard and for the other iframe "a1" the same. But it only copy's me one information, i can't get put the...

How to do this in ASP.NET

4 Feb 2014 by Mohamad M. Mohamad

In a grid view that contain hyperlink template to copy the data of the hyperlink text to clipboard after being bind data from database.

C# save data in clipboard?

9 Dec 2014 by john1990_1

How to save data in clipboard (all of it), and then set the clipboard to it after the clipboard have changed?

C# save data in clipboard?

10 Dec 2014 by /\jmot

See the links.it may help.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3546016/how-to-copy-data-to-clipboard-in-c-sharp[^]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2243241/how-do-i-save-a-copy-of-the-clipboard-and-then-revert-back-to-it[^]

C# save data in clipboard?

10 Dec 2014 by BillWoodruff

Saving an 'object into the Clipboard, and reading it, is not difficult: the one requirement is that the 'object must be serializable. But, remember that the Clipboard is meant to be used by the user, at any time, "inside" or "outside" of your Application. To try and restrict its use is a serious...

How to Set the Text font to the system clipboard when Text copyed from my WPF application to MS Word

6 Jan 2016 by Member 12248948

Hi,I want to copy text and text font from my application to ms word application using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.When i press Cntl+C i have done my coding Clipboard.SetText(textbox1.text) in my wpf application.when i'm press Ctrl+V in ms word it only pasting text not text font.If any one know...

Non-breaking spaces lost on copy & paste from word to wpf textbox

15 Feb 2016 by JulesKo

Hello all,I'm currently implementing a text editor which needs to be able to handle non-breaking spaces .( / ). My problem is that we need to copy&paste pre-existing MS Word content into the TextBox (or RichTextBox). However, the non-breaking space was lost somewhere between copying...

Non-breaking spaces lost on copy & paste from word to wpf textbox

16 Feb 2016 by Jochen Arndt

When the character is not present in the clipboard text but within the source, it is probably replaced when Word creates the clipboard objects.Then the only solution would be not using the Unicode text clipboard format but another one. With Word, there should be at least RTF and HTML....

Check with C# if the clipboard is really empty and no any format is there

22 Mar 2017 by ByeByeByeByeBye

I would like to check with a custom C# method alike "IsClipBoardEmpty" if my ClipBoard is really empty of anything. The method shall be in pure C# and not require any STA_THREAD or external API or whatever. I have tried different solutions which weren't working for me. I have a menu item "Clear...

Check with C# if the clipboard is really empty and no any format is there

1 Apr 2016 by phil.o

There is a GetDataObject method that you can use; if it returns a null value, then the clipboard is empty:public static bool IsClipboardEmpty() { return (Clipboard.GetDataObject() == null);}

Check with C# if the clipboard is really empty and no any format is there

1 Apr 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak

The only time the clipboard is ever truly empty is right after you login or something calls the equivalent of Clipboard.Clear(), which rarely ever happens.

^C not working for file copy in C#

15 Jun 2016 by Manoj Chamikara

I create a small application I select files form folder then Press My Hotkey it sends a Copy Command Like thisSendKeys.SendWait("^C");but after i cant get file paths from Clipboard but notepad text working fileWhy is that any other way to get file paths to clipboardWhat I...

^C not working for file copy in C#

15 Jun 2016 by Alan N

It is possible that SendKeys is not activating the shortcut command Ctrl-C. You may get the desired result by sending a sequence of menu commands.In Explorer the menu equivalent of Ctrl-C isAlt-E Open the edit menuC 'Click' the copy menu itemInstead of Ctrl-C send Alt-E...

Why clipboard.setdataobject doesn't copy object to the clipboard in C#

17 Jul 2016 by joonood

I have a win app (C#) that use clipboard to send and receive data to/from other applications. for example i wnat to use Word app in windows, I copy a text using c# to the clipboard, but when i want to simulate paste key (Stroke Ctrl+v) in c# , the clipboard is empty and i just got "v" as...

Why clipboard.setdataobject doesn't copy object to the clipboard in C#

17 Jul 2016 by OriginalGriff

Start by using Clipboard.SetText instead of SetDataObject - it shouldn't make any difference in this case, but it's a simpler way to do things.Your code works: I tried it in a simple form in one of my apps:private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ...

How copy text with font?

24 Jul 2016 by Member 12620249

hithis is my activity protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.word); et =(EditText)findViewById(R.id.et); btnz =(Button)findViewById(R.id.btnz); btncopy...

How copy text with font?

24 Jul 2016 by Richard MacCutchan

You need to save all information relating to the item that you are putting on the clipboard. This is described in the section titled "Implementing Copy or Drag" at ClipData | Android Developers[^].

Auto set array of string to clipboard one by one when pressing key

29 Jan 2017 by Member 12972343

When i copy a texts (separated by tab), my program split the copied texts and store in the array of string. when i press the button it will display the array of text one by one and display along with set the text to clipboard. i am able to display text but not able to set in the clipboard. Can...

Auto set array of string to clipboard one by one when pressing key

29 Jan 2017 by Richard MacCutchan

That's because you only set one string into the clipboard in your main method thus: StringSelection stringSelection = new StringSelection (aa[i]); clipboard.setContents (stringSelection, null);You need to wait until you have collected all the text in the array, and then convert it into...

How to find the names of all files from the clipboard

25 Apr 2017 by MarshalS

I just created an MFC application to find the file names from the clipboard.This code is working fine when we copy 1 file, but when we copy multiple files it only shows the first file. Is there is any method to find out all the file names that copied to the clipboard? What I have tried: ...

Copy clipboard contents to string - vbscript

27 Nov 2017 by Member 13545139

In vbscript I am initally copying contents from pdf to clipboard. And then copying clipboard contents onto a string. The code works perfect on a windows7 machine with UFT version 12.53 , Adobe Acrobat DC reader version 15.1536. However the same script fails at "Copy from clipboard to string" in...

Copy clipboard contents to string - vbscript

27 Nov 2017 by RDBurmon

That's because - there are different method for window.clipboardData.setData I had the same issue but my purpose was different - See below blog which I had referred and that resolved my issue In Windows 10 (build 14332) window.clipboardData.setData does not work as expected. · Issue #1071...

Getwindowtext function returns null always

12 Aug 2018 by Dilan Shaminda

I am using Win32 API functions to register the current program in the Clipboard chain. Below function retrieves the window handle of the current owner of the clipboard. The problem is GetCaptionOfWindow always return null. [DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern IntPtr...

Getwindowtext function returns null always

12 Aug 2018 by Mehdi Gholam

Read this : how to get GetWindowText[^]

Pasting text with formatting with proper auto numbering

21 Dec 2018 by Marcin Bednarek

I have in Microsoft Word 5 lines od text with auto numbering. All lines have it's own formatting like bold, italic, etc. 1. Line 1 2. Line 2 3. Line 3 4. Line 4 5. Line 5 When I copy to clipboard selected lines 2-4 and paste it into TextBox control in VB.NET Windows Form Application I get...

Pasting text with formatting with proper auto numbering

21 Dec 2018 by RickZeeland

Here is a (lengthy) discussion about the same problem, which seems to be solved: [RESOLVED] How to copy Auto-Numbering and Pure-Text from RichTextBox or MS Word ?-VBForums[^]

How do I get raw data (qbytearray maybe) from clipboard (qapplication::clipboard()) in qt5 ?

31 Oct 2020 by Sergiy P

I'm getting data from clipboard and checking its type: const QClipboard *clipboard = QApplication::clipboard(); const QMimeData *mimeData = clipboard->mimeData(); if (mimeData->hasImage()) { ...

Copy datagridview data with image column to clipboard

13 Sep 2021 by Sarah Rozaizee

Is it possible to copy datagridview with image column to the clipboard and paste it on excel. Cause I'm using copy datagridview to clipboard paste it on excel for excel exporting but the image column was not copied. Is there a way to fix this? ...

Copy datagridview data with image column to clipboard

13 Sep 2021 by Richard MacCutchan

The documentation at DataGridView.ClipboardCopyMode Property (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Docs[^] states: Quote: Gets or sets a value that indicates whether users can copy cell text values to the Clipboard and whether row and column header...

Copy to Clipboard in ASP.NET-C#

10 Dec 2021 by Lord_Nick69

I just wanted to say that Solution 3 worked great. I used this to copy everything in a listBox so it could be pasted into a .txt file; of course you can paste it anywhere once in the clipboard. A note here, remember to add Using System.Threading;

Crazy, lazy question, excel paste from clipboard

25 Jun 2022 by 0x01AA

Dear experts a.) We know: Write something into clipboard where fields are separated by and lines separated by we can paste it easily to Excel. b.) Now, in Excel we can edit a cell and with alt& Enter we can force a 'line break' in a...

Crazy, lazy question, excel paste from clipboard

24 Jun 2022 by OriginalGriff

More importantly, why are you going via the clipboard at all? In Interop - where you talk directly to Excel from your code - it's simple: the LineFeed character'\n' is an "in-cell" line break Going via the clipboard may seem simple but if your...

Issue in ckeditor 5 after submit

15 Jan 2024 by Red Kipling

I have installed ckeditor5 in my forum But the issue is after submit a css code for example (shown correctly in editor) it is shown like a plain text (code block plugin is installed) The table is not shown after submit but it is shown...

Issue in ckeditor 5 after submit

22 Jan 2024 by Red Kipling

thanks for help problem resolved

Windows Clipboard Formats

7 Mar 2018 by Jochen Arndt

An overview of clipboard and Drag & Drop object formats