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RE: clipboard

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Jul 12, 2001
• 389 views

Jerry,

The Windows Clipboard is a temporary storage location for information 
you cut or copy. The Clipboard is always present in Windows, and is used 
whenever you cut, copy, or paste information. Information moved to the 
Clipboard remains there until you move another piece of information to 
it, or until you quit Windows.

In fact, I used the Clipboard to copy that info from the Win98 help file 
into this reply.  The information can be anything from text to bitmaps.  
If installed, you can view the contents using the Windows clipboard 
viewer located in Programs/Accessories/System Tools.  If it's not there, 
try Add/Remove Programs in your control panel.

The clipboard can be used for doing DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to share 
information between two running programs because all programs have 
access to the clipboard.

Check the Euphoria archives for some librarys and examples of using the 
clipboard programmatically.

-- Brian


Jerry wrote:
>   I gotta really ignorant question.  What, who is "clipboard"?
> I'm supposed to send files to "clipboard".  How is that done?  What is 
> the
> purpose of "clipboard"?
>   I can't find anything helpful on "clipboard" when I click on HELP on
> Windows NT4 on my computer.
> 
>        Jerry Story
> 
> 
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