[Mono-winforms-list] Clipboard.SetDataObject() doing nothing

[Carlos Alberto Cortez]

This issue has nothing to see with that Changelog entry.

Basically we have never supported copying/pasting other than text/rtf text.
So feel free to open a bug report for it :-)

Thanks!
Carlos.


2009/5/24 Christoph Teuber <christoph.teuber at gmx.li>

> Hello,
>
> thanks for your fast answer.
>
> You were right, there were several changes, but nothing seems to be
> connected with my SetDataObject() problem. But I found this statement:
>
> 2007-03-18 Jackson Harper <jackson at ximian.com>
>
> * TextBoxBase.cs: Remove image pasting code for now. There is no
> way to get an image on the clipboard right now anyways.
>
> This ist from 2007, so it may be out of date, but does it mean, that
> copying images to the clipboard doesn't work at all? I wonder, because
>
> Clipboard.SetImage( im );
>
> or
>
> Clipboard.SetObjectData( im );
>
> doesn't do anything either. (im is an image loaded as posted before). In
> contrary,
>
> Clipboard.SetObjectData("this is a test");
>
> does work.
>
> Greetings
> cht
>
>
>
> Stifu wrote:
> > I know there've been clipboard fixes after 2.4, so you could check out
> SVN
> > (or bugzilla).
> >
> >
> > cht wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to do some clipboard stuff under Mono right now, and I have
> the
> >> problem, that Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject() doesn't seem to do
> >> anything if a DataObject will be passed.
> >>
> >> I do have the following two pieces of code, which both run under .NET
> 2.0,
> >> but running under mono (2.0.1, Ubuntu 9.04) leaves the clipboard
> >> completely unchanged.
> >>
> >> private void testButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
> >>         {
> >>             Image im = (Image)Bitmap.FromFile("test.jpg");
> >>             DataObject dataObj = new DataObject();
> >>             dataObj.SetData(im.GetType().ToString(), im);
> >>             Clipboard.SetDataObject(dataObj, true);
> >>
> >>         }
> >>
> >> private void testTextButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
> >>         {
> >>             DataObject dataObj = new DataObject();
> >>             string format = "System.String";
> >>             dataObj.SetData(format, "this is a test");
> >>             Clipboard.SetDataObject(dataObj, false);
> >>         }
> >>
> >>
> >> I compile using VS 2008.
> >> As Clipboard.cs seems to bee unchanged since 2.0.1, I didn't try
> >> installing Mono 2.4. But I would like to stay compatible to 2.0.1
> anyway,
> >> so I hope I'm doing something wrong.
> >>
> >> Anybody any idea, why this is the case?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >> cht
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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