Metafiles and the Clipboard

[Arnold Curry]

Hello,

Does anyone know how to paste a Framework Metafile object to the Clipboard
so it can be pasted into an Office 2000 document (i.e Word, Excel,
PowerPoint)? I have no problem with text or bitmaps. Metafile objects work
as long as I paste the copied Metafile object back into managed code (using
C#). Also, I can create a metafile as an external file and use the import
Picture on the Word Insert menu and that works fine. This suggests that the
metafile I've saved has both GDI and GDI+ records. The GDI+ records should
be ignored by GDI so I don't understand why this doesn't work I am using a
memory stream to draw on the metafile when I paste it to the clipboard so
there are no files to deal with. When I try to paste the metafile into Word,
nothing shows and there are no errors??

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Arnold Curry

[John Hornick [MS]]

Hi,

You need to Metafile.GetHenhmetafile() and then put that on the clipboard
using Win32 Clipboard APIs (interop).

Thanks,
- John
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