Clipboard in .NET

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I am trying to use the clipboard to copy from simple viewer & paste into MS Word.

All appears to be working internally but if I copy onto the clipboard, no other application can paste the copied image.

I can write the meta file to a file, that works fine. I can GetData from the Clipboard within the program, that works (see below). But no other application recognizes that I have copied something onto the clipboard.

Any ideas?

Dean

Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.IO

Class Clip
Inherits Form

ReadOnly ms As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()

Shared Shadows Sub Main()
Application.Run(New Clip())
End Sub

Readonly ms as MemoryStream = new MemoryStream()
Sub New()

Dim grfx As Graphics = CreateGraphics()
Dim ipHdc As IntPtr = grfx.GetHdc()
Dim mf = New Metafile(ms, ipHdc)
grfx.ReleaseHdc(ipHdc)
grfx.Dispose()
grfx = Graphics.FromImage(mf)
grfx.DrawEllipse(New Pen(Color.Red), 10, 10, 50, 40)

grfx.Dispose()
Clipboard.SetDataObject(mf, True)

End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub OnPaint(ByVal pea As PaintEventArgs)
Dim data As IDataObject = Clipboard.GetDataObject()

If data.GetDataPresent(GetType(Metafile)) Then
Dim mf As Metafile = DirectCast(data.GetData(GetType(Metafile)), Metafile)
pea.Graphics.DrawImage(mf, 0, 0, mf.Width, mf.Height)
End If
End Sub
End Class
Dean
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