Copy HTML to Clipboard
lazarus / 23-Operating Systems

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Mike.Cornflake · 2015-03-11 20:59

I've just noticed on the wiki that someone has posted a small snippet
of code for pasting html onto the clipboard...  I've tried to go back
through the revisions to find who posted, but I can't find them -
simply far too many revisions...

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Office_Automation#Copy_HTML_to_the_
clipboard

In my experience, this doesn't work with Microsoft Office apps.  While
'text/html' is the seemingly obvious mime to use, in fact Microsoft
want to see 'HTML Format' - Sigh...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767917%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

This was in fact the very first item I had to research when I started
playing with lazarus :-)  I posted my solution then to
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,11191.msg151451.ht
ml#msg151451

I'm happy to simplify that code and update the wiki, but before I do
that I want to contact the original author of that snippet on the
wiki.   It's entirely possible that that code snippet worked for them
in applications other than those written by Microsoft...  In which
case I append my solution to theirs, not replace it...

So:  if you're that author, or you know them, can you ask them to drop
me a message?

Thanks.

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Mike.Cornflake · 2015-03-11 22:01

Played 20 questions and think I've found the author...