http://www.thecodecave.com/article19 Cold storage before my best ideas melt away... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:37:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.thecodecave.com/article19#comment-152 The Code Cave Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:48:35 +0000 http://thecodecave.com/?p=19#comment-152 [...] So what the code above does is asks for the document in the parent window (the one in which you right clicked). It then asks for the current selection (if any). It then gets the current selection as text and then asks for the clibboard object for the current window. At that point it is a simple call to SetData and the selected text is added (with a few additions) to the clippboard. There isn't much more than that. One thing that should be noted is that the type of data in the clibboard must be specified, in this case, as text. You can read more about the other types of data that a clib board can handle in my article about Clipboard manipulation with Delphi HERE: [...] [...] So what the code above does is asks for the document in the parent window (the one in which you right clicked). It then asks for the current selection (if any). It then gets the current selection as text and then asks for the clibboard object for the current window. At that point it is a simple call to SetData and the selected text is added (with a few additions) to the clippboard. There isn’t much more than that. One thing that should be noted is that the type of data in the clibboard must be specified, in this case, as text. You can read more about the other types of data that a clib board can handle in my article about Clipboard manipulation with Delphi HERE: [...]

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