CutCopyDragWithHtml doesn't create correct data

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Posted 16 years ago by Jeff Pek - Autodesk, Inc.
Version: 4.0.0271
Platform: .NET 2.0
Environment: Windows XP (32-bit)
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When we use a SyntaxEditor control, and set its CutCopyDragWithHtml property to True, we're finding that the HTML clipboard content that it generates is incomplete -- i.e., only a fragment of HTML. For example:

<span style="color: #0000FF;">using</span><span style="color: #000000;"> System;
</span><span style="color: #0000FF;">using</span><span style="color: #000000;"> System.Collections.Generic;
</span>

This causes problems with applications such as OneNote that want to paste HTML. It winds up pasting nothing (at least it looks like nothing).

According to MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649015(VS.85).aspx), it would seem that only having this "little piece" of HTML is not correct.

It seems that you need the other HTML "structure" wrapping this fragment.

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Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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So really if we wrapped it with:
<html><body>...what is currently copied...</body></html>
then it would be ok, right?


Actipro Software Support

Posted 16 years ago by Jeff Pek - Autodesk, Inc.
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No, I don't think that would work. You need more than that. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2007/01/21/html-clipboard.aspx

For example, if you look at what OneNote itself generates on the clipboard for a small selection, you'll see this:

Version:1.0
StartHTML:0000000105
EndHTML:0000000755
StartFragment:0000000482
EndFragment:0000000715

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name=ProgId content=OneNote.File>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft OneNote 12">
</head>

<body lang=en-US>


<p style='margin:0in;font-family:"Courier New";font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='color:blue'>Child</span><span style='color:black'> bv1 </span><span
style='color:blue'>As</span><span style='color:black'> :IvBaseView</span></p>


</body>

</html>

Note that the blog post cited also contains some sample code to help produce an appropriate clipboard text string given a fragment.

Jeff
Posted 16 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Ok, this is now fixed for the next maintenance release.


Actipro Software Support

Posted 16 years ago by Jeff Pek - Autodesk, Inc.
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Super! That was fast!
But ... I have 2 more issues with the HTML clipboard data that I'll post shortly.

Thanks for the fast work!
Jeff
The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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