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VB Forum / COM / June 2008How to copy a picturebox.picture into clipboard?
I do some drawing to a picturebox and thought I could move the content to the clipboard for later use in Word like this: PIC.AutoRedraw=true ...draw something to PIC like PIC.Line (...)-(...) Clipboard.SetData PIC.Picture, vbCFBitmap Why doesn't this work? It doesn't return an error but it doesn't store anything in the clipboard. >I do some drawing to a picturebox and thought I could move the content to >the clipboard for later use in Word like this: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Why doesn't this work? It doesn't return an error but it doesn't store > anything in the clipboard. Begin with Clipboard.Clear And when using format konstants you must have parenthesis around it. That is: (vbCFBitmap) And moreover, you have no PIC.Picture in the pictureBox - right ? Try using PIC.Image instead. >> PIC.AutoRedraw=true >> ...draw something to PIC like PIC.Line (...)-(...) [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > pictureBox - right ? > Try using PIC.Image instead. Hmm, thank you for your answer. With .image it works perfectly. Of course, in a picturebox there is also .picture available but only as sub-object with its properties .Handle, .height, ans so on, but not including an image property, so there was no error generated. Maybe pictureboxes didn't have this object in VB5, I could swear that I referred to the image content by .picture some years ago. Nevertheless, thank you. Hmm, it works witth Clipboard.SetData PIC.Image,vbCFBitmap without paranthesis - what should they be for? >>> PIC.AutoRedraw=true >>> ...draw something to PIC like PIC.Line (...)-(...) [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Hmm, it works witth Clipboard.SetData PIC.Image,vbCFBitmap without > paranthesis - what should they be for? Good, you got it working. I' m also using VB5 and don't know if any difference to VB6. The picture and image properties are related to different layers. Though, as you use the image property setting some drawing to the Clipboard, you're using the picture property to set the drawing back to the picturebox. Look an example below, that uses two pictureboxes on a form. It draws a circle on picture1, sets it on the clipboard, then clears the pictureboxes and puts the circle back on both pictureboxes. As you found out, you don't necessarily have to use the parenthesis. -VB5 Books on Line tell one to use these - but don't tell why. You should look at microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion about a 20 lines down from top you'll find the subject line: Picture this Read Larrys answer and use the site he pointed to. /senn Option Explicit Private Sub Form_Load() Picture1.AutoRedraw = True Picture2.AutoRedraw = True Picture1.Circle (2000, 1600), 1000 Clipboard.Clear Clipboard.SetData Picture1.Image, (vbCFBitmap) 'Or one of the two below works as well 'Clipboard.SetData Picture1.Image, vbCFBitmap 'Clipboard.SetData Picture1.Image Picture1.Cls Picture2.Cls Picture1.Picture = Clipboard.GetData Picture2.Picture = Clipboard.GetData End Sub () means value of. i.e. passing a value not a pointer (ByRef) >>>> PIC.AutoRedraw=true >>>> ...draw something to PIC like PIC.Line (...)-(...) [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] > Picture2.Picture = Clipboard.GetData > End Sub |
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