Another clipboard question:
When text is put onto the clipboard, it frequently goes in multiple ways, usually with and without formatting information. What I want to know is this — how do you change the text on the clipboard without altering the formatting. In other words, I want to change the text side of things, but keep the formatting exactly the same.
This is again for my “TextScrubber” application where I want to remove line breaks from the text on the clipboard, but I don’t want to alter the format info about that text.
I’m hoping that I don’t have to “brute force” it by iterating over all the formats present, storing each, and then reinserting them after the text has been scrubbed.
I think the “brute force” is precisely what you’ll have to do – according to MSDN Win32 API there is no way to do otherwise.