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Re: getting data from clipboard...

• Posted by wooseob <wooseoblee at empal.com> Apr 20, 2005
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CChris wrote:
> 
> wooseob wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, all
> > i want to know how to get text data from clipboard. from my prog.
> > i found Jacques Deschenes's WINCLIP.EW and found 'GetClipboardData' routine
> > in it, but don't know how to use it. GetClipboardData returns atom. this
> > returned atom value is the memory address for the clipboard data???? if so,
> > how to get that data as the text sequence in my prog?
> > Anybody can give a short usage example for WINCLIP.EW
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> 
> The atom GetClipboardData() returns is a _handle_ (not an address) of a local
> buffer
> 
> the data is in, or 0 on failure.
> To access this handle, you must do the following:
> 
> - call GlobalLock on this returned handle. Then you get an address.
> - Copy or inspect data
> - call GlobalUnlock on the handle.
> 
> This buffer is owned by Windows. Copy the data in some sequence for later use.
> Never try to free this buffer, and be sure to unlock it when done.
> 
> The data is plain text, where line end in \r\n. Data ends in a trailing zero.
> To get this data without hassles, you may need some routine like win32lib's
> w32peek_string(address).
> 
> HTH
> CChris
> 

Thanks CChris,
I've finally succeeded in getting clipboard data!!^^;