>James, Dragan,
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>Thanks for the reply to all of you.
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>I cannot use "any text you like" because I need to get it from clipboard. And _cliptext does not work giving ?????? characters or inproper character set representation.
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>Only CTRL+V works, but in manual mode only. Therefore I posted the question.
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>Finally I gave up and used editbox and underlying temporary table with binary memofield. Then I was able to insert into table values (_cliptext) and display text properly in the editbox.
>Interesting enough binary character field does not work properly here.
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>Though solution seems is found, still it would be good to have answers to two questions:
>- how to paste into RTF control programmatically, and
>- why binary character field does not work here the same way as binary memo field.

It seems to depend on the format of the data on clipboard. You may look at the few functions in FoxTools, namely GetClipDat() and GetClipFmt(), OpenClip() etc - you may use them to retrieve your clipboard data in a format which will be compatible with the RTF control.

I've tried using directly _cliptext with content copied from a web browser (Mozilla) and a spreadsheet (OppenOffict), and it carried the usual text-only content. If you're seeing any codepage things happening, that's probably because VFP's _clipboard has the text version of the data translated automatically into current codepage, or not translated at all. If the original content is Unicode on the Windows clipboard, I think this automatic conversion is doing a very bad job.