>>I used to use Append General in VFP3 to take an image from my clipboard and paste it into a GENERAL field in my table. VFP5 seems to APPEND GENERAL only from a file!
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>>Help seems to imply this, and my attempts to APPEND GENERAL fieldname to paste in my clipboard consistantly fails.
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>>Am I missing something, or did the command change?
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>>TIA
>Yes you can do it only from file with "append general ...". But there is a dirty trick to add from clipboard w/o using API etc :
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>create cursor mycursor (mygen g, mymemo m)
>append blank
>keyboard "{Ctrl+pgdn}"
>keyboard "{Ctrl+V}"
>browse nowait
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>Cetin

Ick! That _is_ a little dirty. How difficult would it be to do it with an API?