556 Form design: Graphic objectsVERSIONS: All
SUBJECT: Cannot Copy and Paste into a Graphic object
BY: REGAN L. MCMORRIS
Date: 19 August 1996
I had lost the ability to copy images from MS Paint to the clipboard and then paste them into a graphic object in a form. This occured both in 5.0 and 7.0. Copy/paste worked fine between other applications though.
I had recently copied a graphic object to the Toolbar using the "Copy to Toolbar" command. I then saved my custom style sheet so that each time I created a new graphic object, the graphic I had saved would be used as default. Under these circumstances, you cannot use the Paste command to insert a new graphic. I changed my style sheet to the default.ft style sheet and then added a new undefined graphic field. Paste works fine then.
Lesson learned, do not save default graphics to toolbar.
My comment:
I recall a similar problem where I had copied a tableframe object to the toolbar. By accident it happened to have a filter set. When I tried to add a tableframe object to a form, I got an error.