Metafiles

[Tomas Gudmundsson]

Dear Standa,

I have discovered what causes the "Out of memory" problem in Windows 95 when 
you copy a metafile to the clipboard : You should not call DeleteEnhMetafile(). 
The code I am using is attached.

There is however another problem, Word does not recognize the size of the 
graphics under Windows 95. This works under NT. I do not have any solution to 
this problem. It is not too serious for time series, etc, but worse for 
networks where the aspect ratio is fixed. When you copy and paste metafiles 
between documents in Word, the size is maintained. It seems as if Word adds 
some information to the header of the file. You can examine the file using the 
MFEdit example.

Best Regards
Tomas

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void CTSEditGraphView::CopyMetaFileToClipboard()
{
  CDC* pDC = GetDC();

  // Find pixels per millimeters
        double horzpixpermm, vertpixpermm;
  horzpixpermm = (double)pDC->GetDeviceCaps(HORZRES) /
                 (double)pDC->GetDeviceCaps(HORZSIZE);
  vertpixpermm = (double)pDC->GetDeviceCaps(VERTRES) /
                 (double)pDC->GetDeviceCaps(VERTSIZE);

  // Find size of client area in millimeters
  CRect ClientArea;
        GetClientRect(&ClientArea);
  double widthmm, heightmm;
        widthmm  = (double)(ClientArea.right  - ClientArea.left) / horzpixpermm;
        heightmm = (double)(ClientArea.bottom - ClientArea.top)  / vertpixpermm;

  // Create metafile and copy to clipboard
  CMetaFileDC MFDC;
  CRect Bounds(0,0,(int)(100.0 * widthmm),(int)(100.0 * heightmm));
  if (!MFDC.CreateEnhanced(pDC,NULL,&Bounds,"Time Series Editor\0Time 
Series\0\0"))
  {
    MessageBox("Could not create metafile");
    return;
  }
  MFDC.SetAttribDC(pDC->m_hDC);
  OnDraw(&MFDC);
  HENHMETAFILE hMF = MFDC.CloseEnhanced();

  OpenClipboard();
  EmptyClipboard();
  SetClipboardData(CF_ENHMETAFILE,hMF);
  CloseClipboard();
} // End CTSEditGraphView::CopyMetaFileToClipboard()
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