如何整洁地将图像添加到剪贴板并粘贴？

Question

i have a global registered hotkey which works fine, inside this hotkey is the following code:

        {
            Clipboard.SetDataObject(Properties.Resources.cookie);
            SendKeys.SendWait("^v");
        }

It adds the cookie image to my clipboard and pastes it in which ever window is activated. However it only works properly the first time and pastes the image.

The second time i get: A first chance exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll

and this pops up:

However this only pops up if the program has this option, otherwise nothing happens (but i still get the exception error).

But if i manually press ctrl+V... it works every time :S

Answer 1

The Clipboard class has a different method that might work better for you:

Clipboard.SetImage(...);

When setting DataObject only, you can also specify the type of the object. This would also be a viable option, that probably works the same exact way, but using the appropriate method seems.. well.. more appropriate.

Another important note:

Clipboard method's only work on "Single Apartment" threads, so if you're not performing the action on the UI thread, you should make sure to set the thread's state to STA .