Tool for Viewing Drag and Drop and Clipboard Formats

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Introduction

With this tool, you can see what exchange formats that a given clipboard or drag&drop object suports just by dragging it from other application or copying it to the clipboard.

Under the Hood

For getting the ClipboardIDataObjectinterface, I used theClipboardclass from theSystem.Windows.Formsnamespace. The formats are retreived using the methodGetFormatsfrom theIDataObjectinterface.

The monitorization of Clipboard is handled with my component,ClipboardViewer. This component is using theSetClipboardViewerandChangeClipboardChainWin32 Clipboard functions.

Installing & Building

1. Download and extract thesource codeof this article
2. Run thebuild.batfile from command prompt
3. Now run thebin\main.exeand enjoy!

Do you have any questions or comments? Contactme!

History

• 6 Mar 2002
  • The classClipboardVieweris now in a separate file,Rgl.Components.CliboardViewer.cs, and in a different namespace,Rgl.Components
  • TheClipboardViewerclass now correctly creates itself on Win9X/ME
• 14 Feb 2002
  • First version

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About the Author

Rui Lopes

Occupation: Web Developer Location: Portugal