Thread: Clipboard problem

Hi All,
I am trying to save the clipboard content as a bmp file. I tried like this:

Code:

HANDLE hBmp;
	 OpenClipboard();
	 hBmp = GetClipboardData(CF_DIB);	 
	if(hBmp)
	{
		if (WriteDIB("c:\\TEST.BMP",GetClipboardData(CF_DIB)) == TRUE)
		{
			MessageBox("Success","BMP Written",NULL);			
		}
		else
		{
			MessageBox("Failed","BMP Write",NULL);
		}
		EmptyClipboard ();
	}
	else
	{
		printerror(GetLastError());
	}
	CloseClipboard();	



void printerror(long err)
{
	LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
	FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER|FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM|FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,NULL,err,MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),(LPTSTR)&lpMsgBuf,30,NULL);
	MessageBox( NULL, (LPCTSTR)lpMsgBuf, "Error", MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION );	
		}

I am getting NULL in hBmp. So if condition fails. I tried to get the error code. But error message says "Function completed successfully". Can anyone help me where i went wrong??
Thanks in advance,
Saravanan.

I can't see why GetLastError() would return that value. Very strange.

Note that you should delete lpMsgBuffer to prevent a memory leak.

Hi Benny,
I tried with other constant like CF_BITMAP. Again I am getting hBmp to zero.
But one thing i noticed. If I place CF_TEXT in GetClipboardData() then I am getting a valid handle i.e. valid hBmp. But since it is in text I am not able to write the contents as bmp file. So whats really going on here.
Can anyone help me!!
Saravanan.