ClipFileCopy

Description

Short story: Shows how Explorer copies and pastes files (actually, file lists) to/from the clipboard.

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Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function
MClipFileCopy.bas kernel32




shell32

user32




GlobalAlloc
GlobalFree
GlobalLock
GlobalUnlock
RtlMoveMemory
DragQueryFile
DragQueryPoint
CloseClipboard
EmptyClipboard
GetClipboardData
IsClipboardFormatAvailable
OpenClipboard
SetClipboardData

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Download

Download ClipFileCopy.zip   Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution.

Download ClipFileCopy.zip, 10Kb, Last Updated: Tuesday, September 14, 1999