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

[Carlos Alberto Cortez]

I already did some refactoring code to handle formats other than text, we
only need to copy the information just as other x11 applications do that :-)

But anyway, feel free to send (me) those notes as well :-)

Carlos.

2009/5/24 Ivan N. Zlatev <contact at i-nz.net>

> Hey,
>
> There is already a bug for this:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=357642
>
> Basically we don't support IDataObject and custom data (clipboard)
> formats and just hand-check for text and handle that in a magical way.
> The best way (imho) to fix this is to have a IDataObject centric
> clipboard implementation. I have some notes if someone is interested.
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Carlos Alberto Cortez
> <calberto.cortez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 This ist from 2007, so it may be out of date, but does it mean, that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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> --
> Kind Regards,
> Ivan N. Zlatev
>
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