Question

I have an ASCII string (A null terminated char array)
in a console app.

all I want to do is make it so my app will put this string into the “global clipboard”
so that after running it, I can ctrl+v in any standard app (in this case, visual studio) and my string will be pasted!

how do I do this?

I have done:

void SetClipboardText(char* txt)
{
    if(!OpenClipboard(NULL))
    {
        __asm int 3;
    }

    int l = PIstrlen(txt);
    HLOCAL la = GlobalAlloc(LMEM_MOVEABLE,l+1);
    void* dest = GlobalLock(la);
    PImemcpy(dest,txt,l+1);
    GlobalUnlock(la);
    if(!SetClipboardData(CF_OEMTEXT,la))
    {
        __asm int 3;
    }
    CloseClipboard();
}

I have tried CF_TEXT, CF_OEMTEXT, CF_UNICODE, I have tried NULL and GetDesktopWindow() when opening the clipboard

nothing seems to work.
Edit:
the above code always ‘works’ it never errors, it just never does what I want!

Answer 1

How to Set text on clipboard

CString source; 
//put your text in source
if(OpenClipboard())
{
    HGLOBAL clipbuffer;
    char * buffer;
    EmptyClipboard();
    clipbuffer = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_DDESHARE, source.GetLength()+1);
    buffer = (char*)GlobalLock(clipbuffer);
    strcpy(buffer, LPCSTR(source));
    GlobalUnlock(clipbuffer);
    SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT,clipbuffer);
    CloseClipboard();
}

How to get text off of the clipboard

char * buffer;
if(OpenClipboard())
{

    buffer = (char*)GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
    //do something with buffer here 
    //before it goes out of scope

}

CloseClipboard();