copy text from object with background program

What I want to write is a small app that sits in the taskbar while the user is using other applications. If the user highlights some text in another app (say a browser), can I copy that text with my app sitting in the taskbar and paste it to another file? It would be like doing a Ctrl-C, only with another key code (F9 or something) and this would also dump it to either a file or an object in my app.

It sounds feasible, but I'm not sure how you'd go about copying the text from the other apps.

Ok, let me ask another way... is there some way to have a background application trap the Ctrl-C/copy operation?

This may give you a some ideas.




Bruce.

bah... it's all in what you search for. Thanks :thumb: