Office clipboard - controlling programmatically ?

[salil_taneja]

Hi,

Can we control Office Clipboard programmatically?
I am not able to find much on this. I am using PowerPoint 2007 on Windows
Vista.

Even checking whether Office clipboard is active or not will suffice for my
use case.

My Scenario - I have my own implementation of IDataObject::GetData function.
When I do a copy, my function gets a call from the Office Clipboard.
When i do a paste, my function gets a call from the application which is
trying to paste the content.
I want to differentiate between the 2 scenarios in my patched function.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
Salil

[JP]

Here's a function I use to copy text to the clipboard from any Office
program.

Function CopytoClipboard(textToCopy As String)
' code adapted from:
' http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/12/02/putting-text-into-the-windows-clipboard/

Dim objDataObj As DataObject
Set objDataObj = New DataObject

With objDataObj
.SetText (textToCopy)
.PutInClipboard
End With

End Function

HTH,
JP

On Jul 1, 9:32 am, salil_taneja

[purkers]

I can't get VBA to recognize "DataObject" [Outlook 2007]. What References
am I missing to get this (as in Tools | References...)? Sorry I'm kind of
rusty at this.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Scott

[Jay Freedman]

Set a reference to the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library. The easiest
way to get this is to insert a UserForm in your project; you can
remove it later if you don't need it.

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[salil_taneja]

Thanks JP !
But with the object model provided by Office, is there no way to control
Office Clipboard ?

-Salil

[salil_taneja]

Hi Jay,

Can you suggest any way using which I can differentiate between the 2
scenarios above in the original question?

Regards,
Salil

[Jay Freedman]

Sorry, no. For whatever reason, Microsoft has never exposed *anything*
about the Office clipboard in the VBA object model. The DataObject
gives access only to the Windows clipboard, and that's only for text
and not for any other kind of clipboard content.

As you've written your own IDataObject::GetData function, I assume
you're doing that in Visual Studio or VSTO. I've never gotten involved
in that.

[jaf]

Correct, but there are always API's.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159823
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa262347(VS.60).aspx

John

"salil_taneja" <salil...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4506B68D-FCAF-463E...@microsoft.com...

[Jay Freedman]

Repeating what was said in the other branch of this thread, the APIs
discussed in those two articles deal with the Windows clipboard, not
with the Office clipboard.

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