Chapter 18. THE CLIPBOARD
One goal of the Windows application programmer is to create programs that are so like other Windows programs that the user can easily move back and forth between them without experiencing changes in how the programs look and feel. Ideally, the user should see a homogeneous environment and not notice any separation between programs. In such an environment, the user would expect data to be transferable between applications. For example, a calculation produced by one application must be easily imported into a document of another application. The Windows clipboard makes this type of data exchange between applications easy.
The contents of the clipboard at any given moment are a set of memory objects created by the program ...
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