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QB64 is a modern extended BASIC programming language that retains QBasic/QuickBASIC 4.5 compatibility and compiles native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

The _CLIPBOARDIMAGE statement copies a valid QB64 image to the clipboard.

Syntax

_CLIPBOARDIMAGE = existingImageHandle&

Description

Availability

Example(s)

Create a sample image and copy it to the clipboard:


SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(800, 600, 32)

'Create image in memory:
canvas& = _NEWIMAGE(300, 200, 32)
_DEST canvas&

'Draw some random rectangles:
RANDOMIZE TIMER
FOR i = 1 TO 100
    LINE (-100 + RND * _WIDTH, -100 + RND * _HEIGHT)-STEP(RND * 150, RND * 150), _RGB(RND * 255, RND * 255, RND * 255), BF
NEXT
LINE (0, 0)-(_WIDTH - 1, _HEIGHT - 1), _RGB(255, 255, 255), B
COLOR _RGB(0, 0, 0), _RGB(255, 255, 255)
m$ = " Hello, world! "
_PRINTSTRING (_WIDTH / 2 - _PRINTWIDTH(m$) / 2, _HEIGHT / 2 - _FONTHEIGHT / 2), m$

'Show the image:
_DEST 0
_PUTIMAGE (_WIDTH / 2 - _WIDTH(canvas&) / 2, _HEIGHT / 2 - _HEIGHT(canvas&) / 2), canvas&
PRINT "Image generated."

'Copy to the clipboard:
_CLIPBOARDIMAGE = canvas&

PRINT "Image copied to clipboard."

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