[2005] Copy to Clipboard

Hello to you all.

I was wondering if it's possible to copy the text from another application to clipboard and paste it into my application.

The paste procedure is working fine but i don't find any sample about how can i copy from an external application...

Anyone can help me to solve this kind of problem ?

Thanks in advice for any help!

If you were going to access an external application directly you wouldn't use the Clipboard. You'd use the Windows API. Specifically you'd call FindWindow to get the desired top-level window, FindWindowEx to get the desired child control, then SendMessage to get the text from the control.

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

If you were going to access an external application directly you wouldn't use the Clipboard. You'd use the Windows API. Specifically you'd call FindWindow to get the desired top-level window, FindWindowEx to get the desired child control, then SendMessage to get the text from the control.

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Thanks jmcilhinney... I am learning VB.NET! I opened for my first time VB.NET 4 months ago... it's to hard for me to understand all this things... but i still try to search one small sample about this...

Thanks for your big help!