Copying from Label to other Program

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Having in assiue whereby I am copying the content of a label to an external program. Using the:

VB

clipboard.settext(lblOutput)

to copy the label text, and Ctrl + V to paste. I think the problem is that the external program is quite old (possible originally mad in VB6). I can't update the program.

It works fine if I copy to a word document then to the target program.

The output just contains squares instead of new lines.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 7-Sep-11 20:13pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-09-07T21:23:00

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Probably, the problem is that the old program is expecting ASCII style text, while the new one is Unicode.
Try using the other overload:

VB

Clipboard.SetText(lblOutput.Text, TextDataFormat.Text)

Which will enforce the format.

Posted 7-Sep-11 21:23pm

OriginalGriff