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File Clipboard Enhancer

Windows Explorer allows you to cut, copy and paste files. However, whilst it uses the clipboard to do this, the file information is not made generally accessible as a custom clipboard is used. Often it's useful to be able to paste a file name as text: for example, into a file name field in an application or into a batch or text file which can be used for batch renaming or other automated tasks. This utility allows for this by monitoring the clipboard and creating text entries for any files which appear on the clipboard.

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Last Updated: 23 August 2003


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Customising Clipboard Use

The VB Clipboard object gives you quick and easy access to simple clipboard functions. But the Win32 API clipboard object offers a lot more flexibility and functionality. This article presents classes to use custom clipboard formats and receive notifications when the clipboard contents change.

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Last Updated: 23 August 2003


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Clipboard Ring Sample

This sample uses the cClipboardViewer class to hook into clipboard change notifications, and then displays them in a pinnable ListBar in a similar manner to the Clipboard Ring functionality provided in Visual Studio.

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Last Updated: 12 February 2003