Selection to clipboard

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Guest

I want to put some records on the clipboard. I no dad i can select some
records in a table and use Ctrl-C to put it on the clipboard. But how can i
do dad in VB. If i select some records in a form and i clic on a button with
the VB-command DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdCopy the records are not selected
anymore and a warning will be prompt.
 
R

RTL

'The following group of lines were added to support VBA code
'that makes Windows API calls for sending and retreiving clipboard data
Declare Function GlobalUnlock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
Declare Function GlobalLock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
Declare Function GlobalAlloc Lib "kernel32" (ByVal wFlags As Long, ByVal
dwBytes As Long) As Long
Declare Function CloseClipboard Lib "User32" () As Long
Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "User32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function EmptyClipboard Lib "User32" () As Long
Declare Function lstrcpy Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpString1 As Any, ByVal
lpString2 As Any) As Long
Declare Function SetClipboardData Lib "User32" (ByVal wFormat As Long, ByVal
hMem As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetClipboardData Lib "User32" (ByVal wFormat As Long) As
Long
Declare Function GlobalSize Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
Public Const GHND = &H42
Public Const CF_TEXT = 1
Public Const MAXSIZE = 4096


Function ClipBoard_SetData(MyString As String)
On Error GoTo Error_Routine

Dim hGlobalMemory As Long, lpGlobalMemory As Long
Dim hClipMemory As Long, X As Long

' Allocate moveable global memory.
'-------------------------------------------
hGlobalMemory = GlobalAlloc(GHND, Len(MyString) + 1)

' Lock the block to get a far pointer
' to this memory.
lpGlobalMemory = GlobalLock(hGlobalMemory)

' Copy the string to this global memory.
lpGlobalMemory = lstrcpy(lpGlobalMemory, MyString)

' Unlock the memory.
If GlobalUnlock(hGlobalMemory) <> 0 Then
MsgBox "Could not unlock memory location. Copy aborted."
GoTo OutOfHere2
End If

' Open the Clipboard to copy data to.
If OpenClipboard(0&) = 0 Then
MsgBox "Could not open the Clipboard. Copy aborted."
Exit Function
End If

' Clear the Clipboard.
X = EmptyClipboard()

' Copy the data to the Clipboard.
hClipMemory = SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hGlobalMemory)

OutOfHere2:

If CloseClipboard() = 0 Then
MsgBox "Could not close Clipboard."
End If

Exit_Routine:
Exit Function

Error_Routine:
Dim strError As String
strError = "Error # " & Str(Err.Number) & " was generated by " &
Err.Source & " - " & Err.Description

Err.Clear
Resume Next

End Function

Function ClipBoard_GetData()
On Error GoTo Error_Routine

Dim hClipMemory As Long
Dim lpClipMemory As Long
Dim MyString As String
Dim RetVal As Long

If OpenClipboard(0&) = 0 Then
MsgBox "Cannot open Clipboard. Another app. may have it open"
Exit Function
End If

' Obtain the handle to the global memory
' block that is referencing the text.
hClipMemory = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT)
If IsNull(hClipMemory) Then
MsgBox "Could not allocate memory"
GoTo OutOfHere
End If

' Lock Clipboard memory so we can reference
' the actual data string.
lpClipMemory = GlobalLock(hClipMemory)

If Not IsNull(lpClipMemory) Then
MyString = Space$(MAXSIZE)
RetVal = lstrcpy(MyString, lpClipMemory)
RetVal = GlobalUnlock(hClipMemory)

' Peel off the null terminating character.
MyString = Mid(MyString, 1, InStr(1, MyString, Chr$(0), 0) - 1)
Else
MsgBox "Could not lock memory to copy string from."
End If

OutOfHere:

RetVal = CloseClipboard()
ClipBoard_GetData = MyString

Exit_Routine:
Exit Function

Error_Routine:
Dim strError As String
strError = "Error # " & Str(Err.Number) & " was generated by " &
Err.Source & " - " & Err.Description

Err.Clear
Resume Next

End Function
 

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