The Copy Buffer & RichTextBox

[Tom]

When I use ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste from a RichTextBox into
NotePad ... I get nice ASCII text with the proper returns. Everything
looks good. When I paste into WordPad ... I get the RichText font
attributes and paragraph formatting as seen in the RichTextBox. Again,
everything looks good.

Trying to do the above programmaticall y is causing me problems. The
text is there, but in NotePad the returns are absent and the square
boxes (formatting stuff) are visible. In WordPad, the text is there
with returns ... but the font color attributes and paragraph spacing
is absent.

I've read the online doco about multiformatting the copy buffer and
found this very interesting. I was wondering how the ctrl-c had worked
its magic between NotePad and WordPad. However, I have yet to
duplicate the RichTextBox copy command programmaticall y. Below are
some of the commands I have tried >>

// BeginBlock & EndBlock are saved index values.

DataObject data = new DataObject();
textBox.Select( (int)BeginBlock , (int)(EndBlock - BeginBlock));
data.SetData(Da taFormats.Text, true, textBox.Selecte dText);
data.SetData(Da taFormats.Rtf, false, textBox.Selecte dText);
Clipboard.SetDa taObject(data);

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I've also tried UnicodeText and StringFormat formats with the bool
conversion set to true and false.

Any clues to how I can programmaticall y duplicate the RichTextBox's
built-in ctrl-c functionality?

Thanks for any help.

-- Tom