copy past from clipboard issue

[yggdr4s17]

So what I did in this game you can download a template of a skin of a vehicle where you just click copy template to clipboard which  i did. and then i usually just past it in the software i want to edit it in this method does work in paint, paint shop pro but does not work in affinity for some reason. it might just be a setting i do not know of, but i have no idea what to look for does anyone know what the issue here is? 

[walt.farrell]

What formats does the game put on the clipboard? Maybe it doesn't provide any formats that the Affinity applications support. 

On Windows, you might see what options are available from Edit > Paste Special, but for a full view you might need to install a clipboard viewer application.

[yggdr4s17]

i was thinking about that but i can not find any information about what format it is but can it be that special when paint can open it? 

[walt.farrell]

I've no idea what Paint can handle. Sorry.

[David in Яuislip]

If you have your template on the clipboard and run this Powershell script then it will display the clipboard formats and copy them to the clipboard overwriting your template. Paste that into a reply to this post and someone should recognise whether it is valid for Affinity or not
eg copying a bitmap from Photo produces
Portable Document Format
PNG
DeviceIndependentBitmap
Serif Persona Nodes
System.Drawing.Bitmap
Bitmap
Format17

copying text from a text editor produces
System.String
UnicodeText
Text
Locale
OEMText

Use at your own risk, no responsibility accepted if your clocks all go forward one hour

ClipboardFormats.ps1

[yggdr4s17]

i have no idea how that works i just winged it i did download the file did open PowerShell copy past the code in the file to it and did run it and i got this:

System.String
UnicodeText
Text
EnterpriseDataProtectionId

[David in Яuislip]

8 hours ago, yggdr4s17 said:

i have no idea how that works i just winged it

haha, story of my life

No idea what EnterpriseDataProtectionId means, other than that it looks like text
Hopefully a clever person will be along to explain
You could try pasting to Irfanview, that's very good for all sorts of formats
Incidentally, .ps1 files can be run from Explorer with a right click thus:

[Alfred]

3 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

No idea what EnterpriseDataProtectionId means

Please see: Enterprise Data Protection in Windows computers

[David in Яuislip]

7 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Please see: Enterprise Data Protection in Windows computers

Thanks, I'd already read that and some other gibberish but I'm none the wiser. Maybe again after more coffee

[Alfred]

21 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

Maybe again after more coffee

A man after my own heart! <glug>

[yggdr4s17]

you guys are funny anyway! i did run the PowerShell but nothing happened but i found something new i did clip it to the clipboard again and tried to paste it in here and it works and olso i do see now in the attachment its a simple png file

 

[yggdr4s17]

no idea why i cant add 2 pictures in one post

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, yggdr4s17 said:

no idea why i cant add 2 pictures in one post

I’ve no idea, either, but the image in your latest post is just a thumbnail: if you make a new post and attach the original image, clicking on the blue ‘Insert’ link should make it display correctly. Attaching further images to the same post will add to the array of thumbnails at the bottom of the message composition area, each with its own ‘Insert’ link (which should allow you to include multiple images to the same post).

[yggdr4s17]

yes the thumbnail is just to show its a .png file