Platform SDK: Interprocess Communications

METAFILEPICT

The METAFILEPICT structure defines the metafile picture format used for exchanging metafile data through the clipboard.

typedef struct tagMETAFILEPICT { 
    LONG      mm; 
    LONG      xExt; 
    LONG      yExt; 
    HMETAFILE hMF; 
} METAFILEPICT, *LPMETAFILEPICT; 

Members

mm
Specifies the mapping mode in which the picture is drawn.
xExt
Specifies the size of the metafile picture for all modes except the MM_ISOTROPIC and MM_ANISOTROPIC modes. (For more information about these modes, see the yExt member.) The x-extent specifies the width of the rectangle within which the picture is drawn. The coordinates are in units that correspond to the mapping mode.
yExt
Specifies the size of the metafile picture for all modes except the MM_ISOTROPIC and MM_ANISOTROPIC modes. The y-extent specifies the height of the rectangle within which the picture is drawn. The coordinates are in units that correspond to the mapping mode.

For MM_ISOTROPIC and MM_ANISOTROPIC modes, which can be scaled, the xExt and yExt members contain an optional suggested size in MM_HIMETRIC units. For MM_ANISOTROPIC pictures, xExt and yExt can be zero when no suggested size is supplied. For MM_ISOTROPIC pictures, an aspect ratio must be supplied even when no suggested size is given. (If a suggested size is given, the aspect ratio is implied by the size.) To give an aspect ratio without implying a suggested size, set xExt and yExt to negative values whose ratio is the appropriate aspect ratio. The magnitude of the negative xExt and yExt values is ignored; only the ratio is used.

hMF
Handle to a memory metafile.

Requirements

  Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows NT 3.1 or later.
  Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later.
  Header: Declared in Wingdi.h; include Windows.h.

See Also

Clipboard Overview, Clipboard Structures, SetClipboardData