Copy to clipboard problem.

[rrrado]

I need to copy some string to the clipboard. This is the code I use:

handle = GlobalAlloc(GMEM\_MOVEABLE,text.GetLength()+1);
if (handle)
{
	if (OpenClipboard(hWnd) && EmptyClipboard() )
	{
		out = (char\*)GlobalLock(handle);
                    // this fails sometimes (out=NULL) 

My code sometimes fail at out = (char*)GlobalLock(handle); GlobalLock returns NULL and GetLastError() = 6 (invalid handle). Any ideas why ? Is there more reliable code for copying to clipboard ? Thank you!

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rrrado

[cje]

I ran across the following code in one of our projects - not sure if it will help you or not HGLOBAL hData = 0; // open memory file CSharedFile clipb (GMEM_MOVEABLE|GMEM_DDESHARE|GMEM_ZEROINIT); clipb.Write(cstrString, cstrString.GetLength()*sizeof(TCHAR)); clipb.Write(_T("\0"), sizeof(TCHAR)); hData = clipb.Detach(); // Now, hand over memory block to clipboard if (hData) { VERIFY(OpenClipboard()); SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hData); VERIFY(CloseClipboard()); }

cje

[rrrado]

Thank you. I think I've fouind the problem - I was releasing the memory after SetClipboardData which caused the problems.

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rrrado