BUG: Text Copy/Paste from InfoViewer Loses Layout

• Microsoft Visual Studio 97
• Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 5.0
• Microsoft Visual J++, version 1.1
• Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

When you cut-and-paste operations from a topic window in the InfoViewer, the text does not match the original. It contains extra white space, new lines, and, sometimes, other characters.

For example, a table does not retain a table-like layout when copied to a text file or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

CAUSE

Internet Explorer's translation of the underlying HTML text adds extra white space for many HTML tags.

RESOLUTION

The white space must be removed manually.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The problem is most noticeable when you try to copy formatted information, such as a table. In HTML, this is represented by a stream of tags, and not in a two dimensional layout. For example, in the online help contents open the following page:

    Platform, SDK, and DDK Documentation
        Platform SDK
       Reference
                Functions
                    Win32 Functions
                        ScreenSaverConfigureDialog to SetCursor
                            ScrollDC

   BOOL ScrollDC(
    HDC hDC,                // handle of device context
    int dx,                 // horizontal scroll units
    int dy,                 // vertical scroll units
    CONST RECT *lprcScroll, // address of structure for scrolling rectangle
    CONST RECT *lprcClip,   // address of structure for clipping rectangle
    HRGN hrgnUpdate,        // handle of scrolling region
    LPRECT lprcUpdate       // address of structure for update rectangle
   );