Clipboard Question

[devour89]

Is it possible to take data input for a program from the clipboard when someone copies it there??

If it is can anyone explain to me how it would be done.

I'm making a online game formatter which is supposed to take game data of the internet (Crl+A then Crl+C) and then the program takes it from there...

[RoD]

anything copied to the clipboard can be pasted.

[Monster]

Use the Windows API (User32.dll)

OpenClipboard
EmptyClipboard
SetClipboardData
GetClipboardData
CloseClipboard

I think it's something like this:

string data;

if(OpenClipboard())
{
   if((HWND GlobalHWnd = GetClipboardData(CF_RTF)) != 0)
   { 
      char* text = (char *)GlobalLock(GlobalHWnd);
      data = text;
      GlobalUnlock(GlobalHWnd);
   }
   CloseClipboard();
}