Object

Clipboard Class

Used to read and write information to and from the Clipboard.

Properties
Picture
PictureAvailable
Text

Methods
AddRawData
Close
RawData
RawDataAvailable
SetText
TextAvailable

# Notes

In order to read text from or write text to the Clipboard, you must create an object of type Clipboard and then access the Text or Picture properties of the Clipboard object you create. You can place a picture on the Clipboard by setting the Picture property. You can use the SetText and AddRawData methods to write text or binary data to the Clipboard.

# Examples

This example gets the text on the Clipboard and copies it to a variable.

Dim c as New Clipboard
Dim s as String
s=c.text
c.close

This example puts text on the Clipboard.

Dim c as New Clipboard
c.text="The Quick Brown Fox outran the Lazy Dog"
c.close

This example checks to see if the Clipboard is text data and if so, copies the contents of the clipboard to an EditField.

Dim c as New Clipboard
If c.TextAvailable then
EditField1.text=c.Text
End if
c.close

This example copies a PICT image to the Clipboard:

Dim c as New Clipboard
If ImageWell1.image <> Nil then
c.Picture=ImageWell1.image
c.Close
else
MsgBox "No picture is available!"
End if

When you want to put more than one item on the clipboard, you can't use the properties of this class to append new text or graphics to existing material. That is, the following code won't put both text strings on the Clipboard:

Dim c as New Clipboard
c.text="This is the first item being put on the clipboard!"
c.text="This is the second item being put on the clipboard"
c.close

You need to do the appending in your code and just use one call to the Text property.