[RESOLVED] How to read source path from a cut and paste

[dilettante]

I find that if I'm going to support copy/paste from Explorer then drag/drop belongs there too. While VB6 supports (ANSI) file drag/drop it needs help for copy/paste clipboard operations with files.

I'm sure most of us have our pet routines for this kind of thing.


I prefer to wrap similar API calls in a global predeclared object I call PasteFiles that provides a neat way to handle the issue with an object model more compatible with drag/drop in VB6. There is no need for those CopyMemory calls, I think somebody used a bad example to work from. This object has a separate method to test the clipboard for files so your program can avoid false hits by not displaying a right-click paste menu when there aren't any files in the clipboard to paste.

This one handles Paste for Unicode file names as well.

The attachment uses PasteFiles.cls in a stand-alone demo application. It uses a Unicode MessageBox call which helps illustrate Unicode support if you paste some Unicode filenames into it. Drag/drop is still ANSI however. But in reality this is almost never a problem for real applications and real users.