PasteSpecial

Description

Displays a standard OLE dialog allowing the user to choose whether to embed or link the OLE object on the clipboard when pasting it in the specified control. Embedding is the equivalent of calling the Paste function, and linking is the same as calling PasteLink.

Applies to

OLE controls

Syntax

olecontrol.PasteSpecial ( )

Argument

Description

olecontrol

The name of the OLE control into which you want to paste the object on the clipboard


Return value

Integer. Returns 0 if it succeeds and one of the following values if an error occurs:

1 -- User canceled without selecting a paste option

-1 -- No data found

-9 -- Other error

If ole2control is null, PasteSpecial returns null.

Usage

For information about when an object on the clipboard is linkable, see PasteLink.

Examples

If the clipboard contains an OLE object and the object's server application is running, then the following example lets the user choose to embed or link the object in the control ole_1:

integer li_result
li_result = ole_1.PasteSpecial()

See also

LinkTo

Paste

PasteLink