[Lazarus] HTML on clipboard

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:11:55 +1300
Michael Thompson <mike.cornflake at gmail.com> wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> Just found this code on the wiki...
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Office_Automation#Copy_HTML_to_the_clipboard
> 
> On Windows with Microsoft products at least, this doesn't work...  What's
> required is more complex:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767917%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> 
> However, I can't see that code being posted onto the wiki without testing,
> so before I correct the wiki, I'd like to know under what conditions the
> wiki code is good for...
> 
> I think it was Mattias that submitted that code to the wiki...
> 
> Mattias: Do you know or remember which platforms and applications that code
> worked with?

AFAIR an example is Linux, OpenOffice.
I don't know if OO still supports this.

 
> I'm thinking that the code on the wiki is probably good for Linux and
> possibly Mac, and am just looking for confirmation before I update the
> wiki...


Mattias