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Clipboard backup (Visual C++)

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Aug 20, 2005

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Make a backup copy of clipboard data before your clipboard operation, and when you finish, you can restore clipboard to its original status.

Introduction

This piece of code is to help you backup your clipboard data and restore it after you have finished other clipboard operations.

My experience: while I'm developing Word add-in programs, the icon of the new-added button can only be set through clipboard by "...->PasteFace()". This will empty the clipboard data which is going to be pasted in Word. So, I wrote this class, and it helped me a lot.

Usage:

  // the constructor will do backup clipboard operation
  CClipboardBackup cbbackup;
 
  // any other clipboard operations
  ::OpenClipboard(NULL);
  ::EmptyClipboard();
  ::SetClipboardData(......);
  ::CloseClipboard();
  ....
 
  // restore
  cbbackup.Restore();

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