>Anyone know the win api calls to get the data from the clipboard and store it to a variable? I am using VFP5.0 and have looked at _cliptext and getclipdata() in foxtools.fll and none of these return the 'correct' value. The _cliptext seems to strip the chr(13) chr(10) and getclipdata() doesn't seem to do anything(I am using openclip() first).
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>Let me explain a little more. I make a call to another application(written in C++) that sends me back some information on the clipboard. When I look at the clipboard with clipbrd.exe everything looks fine, when I paste the clipboard text into any other application it pastes fine. But when I look at the text in FoxPro it seems to remove any chr(13) chr(10) information. I need to parse this data and the chr(13) chr(10) characters are the sperators. Any Ideas? Thanks

Hi Scott,

I don't think that there's an easy way to do this via the API or foxtools. Is the application that's sending the information via the clipboard setting the format to CF_TEXT? If so, then at least the carriage returns should be in the _CLIPTEXT system variable.

I would think, however, that using DDE services for this would be a better solution.