I've researched this a little bit and everything I've seen shows how to do this using a textbox within vb.Is there a simply command i can use within a windows form (vb) that will simply say "copy any text selected" essentially mimicking the CTRL + C. This could be in a word doc, web browser, any app.
View 14 RepliesMy web page displays a list box which is populated from a sql server database. The user wants to be able to click a button which copies part of the data in the list box.I found lots of examples which do not really do what I want or do not work.
View 7 RepliesHow to add selected text from another program (flash file) to a clipboard? Its already selected just needs to be copied so I can do:
Me.TextBox31.Text = My.Computer.Clipboard.GetText()
SendKeys.Send("^c")
doesn't seem to work?
How to copy a text in asp.net page into Clipboard using vb.net code-behind ?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to copy to the clipboard a text that is read from the serial port, but when try to use:
Clipboard.SetText(MyTexo,MyText Format) give me the follow error: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it.
Im using VB.Net 2008 and is a single form program. What could be wrong.
Im want to use the right mouse click to copy and paste the data in text boxes to a clipboard. Ive tried looking for examples of this but couldnt find any.
View 6 RepliesI am still messing around with Cntrl/Copy and Paste from a menustrip. Paste is working fine. The copy is working to a certain extent. It will copy the complete text field from one control to another. how do I determine what is the selected text only. My code below:
Private Sub CopyToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles CopyToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim activeChild As Form = Me.ActiveMdiChild ' Determine the active child form.
Dim activeControl As Control = activeChild.ActiveControl
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I'd like to ask if anyone knows how to properly use the clipboard to take information from a rich text box and send it to the clipboard. You see, if I try the following, which is pulling text from a rich text box, named RichTextBox2:
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How to copy selected text from webbrowser to textbox in vb.net
View 1 RepliesAm working on a project where i have to get the selected text from a word file(Ms word 2007)Please Advice how i can do this.. I have a Created an ADD-IN button in word. I need to get the Selected Text from the Active Word Document and have to store it somewhere for future use.
View 4 Repliesis there a way to copy selected text out of a WebBrowser object? I tried:
Webbrowser.Select()
Clipboard.SetDataObject(Webbrowser)
I'm creating a web browser using vb2008 ...
And i'm using my own webbrowser context menu ?
I added "COPY" to context menu but i dont know how to make that work
How to copy the selected text in web browser ?
OK this is a novel problem however it has been annoying me for hoursLets say some dude is on my webbrowser and needs to go to a url which is just text on the pageI would like to get the code that sees this selected text on the page and then copies it...
CType(TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls.Item(0), WebBrowser).document.ActiveElement.InnerText.ToString
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I'm trying to do in a web application, that is outside the selected text (ctrl+A) a website, copy the selected text and the result was paste into a word document.
View 7 RepliesWith a network tools application I'm putting together. I have all the information shown in text boxes and have a piece of code to copy the text to the clipboard but its not working. It works on the other text boxes but not on this one the code is.
'Private Sub Button8_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button8.Click Clipboard.SetDataObject(Label11.Text)
End Sub'
I want to copy a datatable into a clipboard so I can paste it into excel and other programs I use, how can I get that to work? If there is no way to get it to work, how can I get a datatable in the clipboard and have it tab delimited?
View 2 RepliesAnyone know how to programmatically copy a set of controls to the clipboard, so the designer can then paste them onto the form?I want to make a function to select a set of fields from the database, make them into configured controls, then put them on the clipboard so I can paste them onto my form in the right area.
View 3 RepliesI have an explorer type window in this application I am building and I need to be able to copy files, folders, etc (in any combination) to the clipboard so that they can be pasted elsewhere. I cannot get the clipboard to copy the files in any format that will allow them to be put back out the same way.[code]...
View 1 RepliesThis is kind of a two part question. I'm trying to make a very simple automated program that will run two stored procedures (one that updates, one that displays the new results) and then copies the results to the clipboard and pastes it in a new e-mail. I already have the e-mail generating and grabbing whatever is on the clipboard, but I need help with the store procedures.
Every guide I look at on Google seems to show a slightly different way of working with SQL, but I threw this together and need to know if it's working. I don't get any errors and the program "hangs" about as long as it takes for the actualy SP to run, but how do I get the "rows affect" output into a textbox or something?[code]...
Wanna make a copy to clipboard button, but it won't work. Well i have a TextBox and a Button, and i used the following code for that:
Clipboard.SetText(TextBox1.Text)
But i get this error then:
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If I failed to copy clipboard I would wait 10 seconds and try again. Then it keeps failing.
However, if I try to debug the program or do any human stuff it gets fixed by it self. But I don't want human intervention.
When i copy text from richtextbox using clipboard.settext vbcrlf is missing. when pasting to notepad or any other textboxes there is no enters. all in the same line.?
View 4 RepliesHow to copy text from RichTextBox or TextBox to clipboard
View 5 RepliesI have complex UserControl (grid, edit controls for grid, etc...) and I want handle CTRL+C keyboard shortcut, however I don't want disable a native functions by edit controls (textboxes, comboboxes, etc...). If the CTRL+C is not handled by other inner controls I want handle it by myself (copy whole row(s) from grid, etc...). I tried override WndProc method in UserControl and check for WM_COPY and WM_COPYDATA, but it doesn't work. It works only on final target control (TextBox for example).
View 3 RepliesI have an Excel Addin with a button that I would like to use to copy a link to the workbook that is currently active. I am able to get the text to copy to the clipboard, however when I paste it in Word or an Email, it pastes as plain text, but I want a link. I've played with different DataFormats, but I don't think I quite grasp how to use that. Below is what I currently have:
Private Sub btnCopyLink_Click(sender As System.Object, e As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.RibbonControlEventArgs) Handles btnCopyLink.Click
Dim objBook As Excel.Workbook = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveWorkbook
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This seem to work in the past but no longer in vb.net
Dim O As Object
O = WebBrowser1.Document.Body.CreateControlRange()
Call O.Add(WebBrowser1.Document.All("ImageId"))
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I am trying to copy/paste a structure to the clipboard the copy appears to work but the paste errors with "COMException crossed a native/managed boundary ErrorCode = -2147467259".The error occurs on the highlighted code line below. Is it possible to put a structure on the clipboard?
Public Structure Obstacle
Dim Type As obs
Dim Deleted As Boolean
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I want to monitor all windows copy to clipboard evets and add the objects that are copied to the clipboard to a list in my application.. how can I do that?
View 1 Repliesi need to use copy clipboard for copying files for example i ll copy some file then i need to save this somewhere in my program how can i do that? i searched little but i just can find copying strings. :S I need more than that :)
View 4 RepliesI am trying to copy/paste a structure to the clipboard the copy appears to work but the paste errors with "COMException crossed a native/managed boundary ErrorCode = -2147467259". The error occurs on the highlighted code line below. Is it possible to put a structure on the clipboard? If so how?
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