copy part of figure to clipboard

Hi! I am trying to capture a specific part of a bigger figure (GUI) and copy it to the windows clipboard. Up to now I am doing the following:

1. I get the needed part and save the cdata.
2. Then make a figure
3. Then plot the image
4. then set the size and make some adjustments
5. then "print" the figure to the clipboard
6. then close the figure

if true
sz = getpixelposition(handles.GUI.findobj('tag','uipanel2'));
f = getframe(handles.GUI,sz);
hf = figure(765); 
imshow(f.cdata);
axis off;
set(gca,'position',[0 0 1 1],'units','normalized')
set(hf,'PaperPosition',[0 0 sz(4) sz(3)])
print(hf,'-dmeta','-r200')
close(hf)
end

Ist there a posibility to do the same without opening a new figure? probably something like

if true
sz = getpixelposition(handles.GUI.findobj('tag','uipanel2'));
print(hf, ***sz***,'-dmeta','-r200')
end

[M. A.]

Hey masiat,

did you find a solution in the meantime? I came here with the exact same question.