Copy & Paste Question

[Steadyhands]

I have a ? about copy & paste. If I copy an attachment from an email to the clipboard I can't paste it in XY. Also if I try a drag & drop XY says nothing to drop. Oh and yes I know about save attachments - it's I just copy paste this way normally. Using 5.10.0030. Is it just me?

[ugus]

Is it just me?

I have also noticed this.
Also using XY 5.10.0030

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Using Outlook 2003 SP 2
Windows XP SP2

/Ulrik

[admin]

I have a ? about copy & paste. If I copy an attachment from an email to the clipboard I can't paste it in XY. Also if I try a drag & drop XY says nothing to drop. Oh and yes I know about save attachments - it's I just copy paste this way normally. Using 5.10.0030. Is it just me?

Uhm, I have Outlook Express and don't find the way to copy an attachment... how??

[RalphM]

Uhm, I have Outlook Express and don't find the way to copy an attachment... how??

In Outlook 2003 there's a ctx menu "Copy" for attachments, though I never use it myself...

[Steadyhands]

Most of the time I just open the message and select the attachment(s), right click and then copy. Previous workflow was to then jump into Explorer and paste. I just tried to do the same thing in XY.

Sometimes I'll drag and drop the attachment from Outlook to Explorer.

[admin]

Most of the time I just open the message and select the attachment(s), right click and then copy. Previous workflow was to then jump into Explorer and paste. I just tried to do the same thing in XY.

Sometimes I'll drag and drop the attachment from Outlook to Explorer.

Since I don't have Outlook I cannot reproduce. Maybe you can help: When you open Clipboard.exe after copying an attachment, what do you see? Any interesting info about the type/format of the data in the clipboard?

[ugus]

Can this link be to any help?....

http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... 2587183cb2

/Ulrik

[Steadyhands]

Couriouser & couriouser said Alice!!
Test steps
Opened outlook message with an attachment. Copied this attachment to the clip board.
Looked at clipbrd.exe and it wasn't there.
Tried a straight text copy from my text editor - could see the text.
Looked at my clipboard histroy tool ARSCLIP, I can see that there is an object last in the list that belongs to outlook.

[ugus]

The clipboard formats used by Outlook/Outlook Express when copying/dragging attachments seems to be:

CFSTR_FILECONTENTS + CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR
http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... d9547b600a

I found some samples on the internet and I have tried the vb-ones and they seems to work, not sure if this is of any help but anyway...

Sample in MFC
http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... 8a29ec74cc

Sample in VB getting Outlook Express messages dropped on a form
http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... dc8d794a51

Getting attachments from Outlook messages dropped on a form
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/download/ ... tlook2.zip

Saving attachments of Outlook messages when the attachments are dropped
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/download/ ... tlook1.zip


/Ulrik

[admin]

The clipboard formats used by Outlook/Outlook Express when copying/dragging attachments seems to be:

CFSTR_FILECONTENTS + CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR
http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... d9547b600a

I found some samples on the internet and I have tried the vb-ones and they seems to work, not sure if this is of any help but anyway...

Sample in MFC
http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... 8a29ec74cc

Sample in VB getting Outlook Express messages dropped on a form
http://groups.google.se/group/microsoft ... dc8d794a51

Getting attachments from Outlook messages dropped on a form
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/download/ ... tlook2.zip

Saving attachments of Outlook messages when the attachments are dropped
http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/download/ ... tlook1.zip


/Ulrik

Thanks Ulrik, I checked it out, but it's not usuable (without much trouble) for me because additional DLLs are needed to make it work.
I will offer a workaround though...

PS: looks better than I thought -- I might even make it...

[ugus]

Thanks Ulrik, I checked it out, but it's not usuable (without much trouble) for me because additional DLLs are needed to make it work.
I will offer a workaround though...

PS: looks better than I thought -- I might even make it...

Glad to help a little in the XYplorer evolution

/Ulrik