[2005] Copy to Clipboard

[Alexandru_mbm]

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!

[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.

[Alexandru_mbm]

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.

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!