Hi Bernd,

>one of my clients wish, to mark an area of an active window for copying the contents of the controls (textboxes etc.) (wich are inside of the selected area) to the clipboard.

There's no native function that will do this. But you can let the user define an area (you can use a container to simulate the rubber band) and the add the Value property to _CLIPTEXT, eg:

_CLIPTEXT = ""
FOR EACH oControl IN THISFORM
  IF position inside selected area
     _CLIPTEXT = _CLIPTEXT + TRANSFORM(oControl.Value,"") + CHR(13)+CHR(10)
  ENDIF
ENDFOR

Christof