Answered using System.Windows.Forms.ClipBoard

[Wolfgang Schölmberger]

Hi everybody,

I try to transform these 2 lines of code to ABL, but have problems with the "DataFormats". Can anybody please help ?

Clipboard.SetData(DataFormats.Rtf, rtfString);
lcHTML = Clipboard.GetData(DataFormats.Html);

TIA, Wolf

 

[Osborne]

Does this work?:

System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard:SetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats:Rtf, rtfString).
lcHTML = System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard:GetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats:Html).

 

[Wolfgang Schölmberger]

Thanks Osborne !

SetData works fine, the RTF-text is saved to the clipboard, but GetData returns nothing.

Read something about Clipboard auto conversion, but I have no idea where to turn it on. Maybe you have a solution for this as well ?

Wolf

 

[Osborne]

Not really sure about converting as there does not appear to be a method for that:

Clipboard Class (System.Windows.Forms)

Provides methods to place data on and retrieve data from the system Clipboard. This class cannot be inherited.

docs.microsoft.com

As HTML is actually text does using System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard:GetText instead work?:

lcHTML = System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard:GetText(System.Windows.Forms.TextDataFormat:Html).

 

[Wolfgang Schölmberger]

GetText returns only the text, not the formatting.
Maybe converting RTF to HTML doesnt work at all using the clipboard. I have an other solution, but it is slow:
- save the contents of a RichTextBox to a file
- open this file with word
- and save it as HTML

works, but it is slow

Thanks anyway, Wolf

 

[Osborne]

It does appear to be the case and your solution looks to be the option as this one is similar:

Converting RTF to HTML in VB.NET the Easy Way - CodeProject

A quick and easy solution to produce excellent HTML from RTF without parsing

www.codeproject.com

Apart from specialist third party .NET solutions there does not appear to be a natural way to convert RTF to HTML.