Hi Heribert,

Windows API has a set of Clipboard functions, which is much more functional than the _CLIPBOARD in Visual FoxPro. All of them can be declared and used in FoxPro applications.

Clipboard API functions
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?group=6

Try the following examples (some of them in membership area):

Retrieving names for the registered clipboard formats
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=268

Testing Clipboard functions: empty clipboard
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=28

Enumerating data formats currently available on the clipboard
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=32

Getting a bit more than the _CLIPTEXT offers
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=278

Storing clipboard content in a bitmap file
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=189

Copying picture of the active form to the Clipboard using Bitmap API functions
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=91

Copying picture of the active form to the Clipboard using Enhanced Metafile API functions
http://www.news2news.com/vfp/?example=404