[DUG] Copy WideString to the clipboard

[Steve Peacocke]

Hello Csaba,

I was about to writre and checking on this when Stevan came up with
the right answer. Use TTntClipboard instead of TClipboard. Take a look
at the class for how to call it - TntClipBrd.pas

Steve
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Steve Peacocke
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On 10/09/2007, Csaba Gajo <csaba at enyem.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I need to copy some text to the clipboard, using the TClipboard object. If
> I use the old-fashioned way, I would do it like this:
>
> clp := TClipboard.Create;
> clp.SetTextBuf(PChar(MyText.Text));
> clp.Free;
>
> However, if I use Unicode components I will have to deal with WideString
> and PWideChar. If I try to do
>
> clp.SetTextBuf(PWideChar(MyText.Text));
>
> I will get an error because the Clipboard expects an ordinary PChar.
> So how can I copy Unicode text to the clipboard?
>
> I'm using Delphi 5 btw.
>
> Thanks, Csaba
>
>
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