Clipboard Extender

[Elroy]

Hi Bobbles,

I must confess that I haven't looked at this program. However, there's always one question I have when I see these:

The built-in clipboard has the ability to store information in many different formats. For instance, anytime we do Ctrl-C from something like Word, we're possibly creating an ANSI version, an RTF version, an XML version, and possibly others, all simultaneously in the clipboard. That's partly why you see the "Paste Special" option in many programs, so you can select which format to paste.

The same ideas hold for many other things, such as images, or matrices (think Excel or SPSS or flexgrid), or nested objects (such as what might be copied from a PowerPoint slide).

In addition, some programs create their own clipboard formats which only work for copy-pasting around in different areas of that program.


Okay, back to this program. If it just hangs onto text and images, it's not going to be much use to me. However, if it somehow makes binary copies of all the different formats for a single entry, and then possibly puts them back into the clipboard, then that's pretty cool. However, I've never seen anyone truly do that in a universal way.

Please let me know what you think.

Regards,
Elroy


EDIT1: As a simple test, possibly select a few controls on a form in the VB6 IDE, copy them, and then save them with this program. And then see if it can later retrieve those controls for pasting after the clipboard has been used for other purposes.