Possible bug: "The clipboard doesn't contain an image."

[Toli]

False. The Clipboard does contain an image. It is a png and it can be safely pasted into Word or Excel using "Paste Special". It can't be pasted in mspaint though.

[pyrochild]

If it's not working in Paint.NET or MSPaint, but it works in Word and Excel, you might have some Office proprietary data in the clipboard, not a regular bitmap image.

Or maybe you copied the image file instead of the image. This is not the same thing.

[Toli]

It is not the file, it is a png image. I know the difference.

I copy it using .net.

Clipboard.SetData("PNG", image);

image is a standard 32bpp png which opens fine in Paint.NET and renders fine in .net Windows.Forms.

Clipboard.SetImage(image);

does the job, but the image loses its transparency when pasted, so it's of no use.

So, why does Paint.NET not recognize the "PNG" Clipboard format?

[Ego Eram Reputo]

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/19459-bug-copy-paste-problem/page__view__findpost__p__330306 (just a suggestion)

[himself22]

EER: Your link doesn't go anywhere.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

How wierd. I used the usual right click on the post number. Odd.

I meant to link to Rick's post in this thread: Clicky

[Rick Brewster]

Actually Paint.NET is intentionally lying to you. I needed a way to get more people to sign up for the forum so I made it randomly bomb out on copy/paste ...

Just kidding. It's not lying to you. Like I said elsewhere, the clipboard is a shared resource, it's cantankerous, and it's not very smart. Setting the type to "PNG" doesn't mean anything, you're using the wrong tag there.

[Toli]

But it actualy is a PNG and Word sees it as a valid PNG... so the tag is not wrong

[gregdosborne]

It is not the file, it is a png image. I know the difference.

I copy it using .net.

Clipboard.SetData("PNG", image);

image is a standard 32bpp png which opens fine in Paint.NET and renders fine in .net Windows.Forms.

Clipboard.SetImage(image);

does the job, but the image loses its transparency when pasted, so it's of no use.

So, why does Paint.NET not recognize the "PNG" Clipboard format?

To properly paste a PNG image to the clipboard, do the following

using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())

{

_Bitmap.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Png);

var data = new DataObject("PNG", stream);

Clipboard.Clear();

Clipboard.SetDataObject(data, true);

}

This should take care of your problems.

Edited July 7, 2011 by gregdosborne

[Rick Brewster]

gregdosborne, newer versions of Paint.NET already do this. Using Reflector, look at PaintDotNet.exe, in the PaintDotNet.ClipboardUtil class, in the GetClipboardImageAsSurface() method.

[pdnnoob]

I kinda feel like a noob saying something that doesn't involve arguing with strings of code, but when I get an error message like that and I can only paste into a word processor, it is usually because I highlighted the image, then copied it. From a non-programmer perspective (and I feel silly saying this), the computer thinks I copied a piece of text and I'm trying to paste it as an image. To solve the problem, I go back, un-highlight the image, and copy by right clicking and pressing the "copy image" button. Not sure if this is the same issue, but it sure sounds like it is.

[Rick Brewster]

Well this conversation is going on elsewhere and this thread is really old anyway, I'm going to close the thread.