KB163234 - PRB: User-defined Formats in OLE Drag-Drop Require Byte Arrays

Article ID: 163234

Article Last Modified on 5/13/2003

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This article was previously published under Q163234

SYMPTOMS

When using the SetData method for OLE Drag/Drop functionality, data in a user-defined format will cause the following message to be displayed at run- time:

"Non-intrinsic OLE drag-and-drop formats used with SetData require Byte array data. GetData may return more bytes than were given to SetData."

RESOLUTION

To work around this behavior, make sure that the data being dragged is placed into a byte array. Decoding the byte array using the GetData is then dependent upon the methods by which this array was created.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

The following formats are known formats when using SetData and GetData:

   Name       Constant
   ---------  ------------
   Text       vbCFText
   Metafile   vbCFMetafile
   DIB        vbCFDIB
   Bitmap     vbCFBitmap
   Palette    vbCFPalette
   Rich Text  vbCFRTF
   DDE Link   vbCFLink

Additional query words: kbVBp500 kbVBp600 kbVBp kbdsd kbDSupport kbOLE

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