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Fix intermittent Clipboard.SetText failure in Plot.cs #8

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18 changes: 17 additions & 1 deletion External/OxyPlot/OxyPlot.WindowsForms/Plot.cs
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Expand Up @@ -884,7 +884,23 @@ private void SetClipboardText(string text)
{
// todo: can't get the following solution to work
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5707990/requested-clipboard-operation-did-not-succeed
Clipboard.SetText(text);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
try
{
Clipboard.SetText(text);
return;
}
catch (ExternalException)
{
if (i == 9)
{
throw;
}

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50);
}
}
}
catch (ExternalException ee)
{
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