frmmain.vb

how to the clipboard

'Copyright (C) 2002 Microsoft Corporation
'All rights reserved.
'THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER 
'EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 
'MERCHANTIBILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

'Requires the Trial or Release version of Visual Studio .NET Professional (or greater).

Option Strict On

Public Class frmMain
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

    ' The following Strings hold the various ways of formatting the
    '   "The Clipboard is Cool!" text.
    Dim strText As String = "The Clipboard is Cool!"
    Dim strHTML As String = "<P>The <B><FONT size='4'><U>Clipboard</U></FONT></B>" & _
        "is <FONT size='5'>Cool!</FONT></P>"
    Dim strRTF As String = "{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{" & _
        "\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 The \ul\b\fs24 " & _
        "Clipboard\ulnone\b0  \fs20 is \fs36 Cool!\par}"
    Dim strXML As String = "<?xml version='1.0'?><Message>The Clipboard " & _
        "is Cool!</Message>"

    ' myImage holds a Bitmap image of two dogs in memory.
    Dim myImage As New System.Drawing.Bitmap("..\twodogs.jpg")


#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "

	Public Sub New()
		MyBase.New()

		'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
		InitializeComponent()

		'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call

		' So that we only need to set the title of the application once,
		' we use the AssemblyInfo class (defined in the AssemblyInfo.vb file)
		' to read the AssemblyTitle attribute.
		Dim ainfo As New AssemblyInfo()

		Me.Text = ainfo.Title
		Me.mnuAbout.Text = String.Format("&About {0} ...", ainfo.Title)

	End Sub

	'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
	Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
		If disposing Then
			If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
				components.Dispose()
			End If
		End If
		MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
	End Sub

	'Required by the Windows Form Designer
	Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

	'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
	'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.  
	'Do not modify it using the code editor.
	Friend WithEvents mnuMain As System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu
	Friend WithEvents mnuFile As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
	Friend WithEvents mnuExit As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
	Friend WithEvents mnuHelp As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
	Friend WithEvents mnuAbout As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuEdit As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents txtPaste As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
    Friend WithEvents rtbPaste As System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
    Friend WithEvents Label1 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
    Friend WithEvents Label2 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyTextAs As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyTextAsText As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyTextAsHTML As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyTextAsRTF As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyImageAs As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyImageAsBitmap As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    Friend WithEvents Label3 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
    Friend WithEvents Label4 As System.Windows.Forms.Label
    Friend WithEvents picturePaste As System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox
    Friend WithEvents mnuCopyTextAsXML As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
        Dim resources As System.Resources.ResourceManager = New System.Resources.ResourceManager(GetType(frmMain))
        Me.mnuMain = New System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu()
        Me.mnuFile = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuExit = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuEdit = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyImageAs = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuCopyImageAsBitmap = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuHelp = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.mnuAbout = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem()
        Me.txtPaste = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox()
        Me.rtbPaste = New System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox()
        Me.Label1 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
        Me.Label2 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
        Me.picturePaste = New System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox()
        Me.Label3 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
        Me.Label4 = New System.Windows.Forms.Label()
        Me.SuspendLayout()
        '
        'mnuMain
        '
        Me.mnuMain.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.mnuFile, Me.mnuEdit, Me.mnuHelp})
        Me.mnuMain.RightToLeft = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuMain.RightToLeft"), System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft)
        '
        'mnuFile
        '
        Me.mnuFile.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuFile.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuFile.Index = 0
        Me.mnuFile.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.mnuExit})
        Me.mnuFile.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuFile.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuFile.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuFile.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuFile.Text = resources.GetString("mnuFile.Text")
        Me.mnuFile.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuFile.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuExit
        '
        Me.mnuExit.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuExit.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuExit.Index = 0
        Me.mnuExit.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuExit.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuExit.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuExit.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuExit.Text = resources.GetString("mnuExit.Text")
        Me.mnuExit.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuExit.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuEdit
        '
        Me.mnuEdit.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuEdit.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuEdit.Index = 1
        Me.mnuEdit.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.mnuCopyTextAs, Me.mnuCopyImageAs})
        Me.mnuEdit.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuEdit.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuEdit.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuEdit.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuEdit.Text = resources.GetString("mnuEdit.Text")
        Me.mnuEdit.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuEdit.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyTextAs
        '
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAs.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.Index = 0
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.mnuCopyTextAsText, Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML, Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF, Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML, Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats})
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAs.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAs.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.Text = resources.GetString("mnuCopyTextAs.Text")
        Me.mnuCopyTextAs.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAs.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyTextAsText
        '
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsText.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText.Index = 0
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsText.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsText.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText.Text = resources.GetString("mnuCopyTextAsText.Text")
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsText.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsText.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyTextAsHTML
        '
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Index = 1
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsHTML.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Text = resources.GetString("mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Text")
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsHTML.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyTextAsRTF
        '
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Index = 2
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsRTF.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Text = resources.GetString("mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Text")
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsRTF.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyTextAsXML
        '
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsXML.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML.Index = 3
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsXML.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsXML.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML.Text = resources.GetString("mnuCopyTextAsXML.Text")
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsXML.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsXML.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats
        '
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Index = 4
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Shortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Shortcut"), System.Windows.Forms.Shortcut)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.ShowShortcut = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.ShowShortcut"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Text = resources.GetString("mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Text")
        Me.mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Visible = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyTextAsAllFormats.Visible"), Boolean)
        '
        'mnuCopyImageAs
        '
        Me.mnuCopyImageAs.Enabled = CType(resources.GetObject("mnuCopyImageAs.Enabled"), Boolean)
        Me.mnuCopyImageAs.Index = 1