CLipboard - source file details

[brendanm]

I need to find the source file and location of anythinig pasted into my program.
I don't know how (or of you can) access this info at all from a clipboard

[Drain]

What do you mean by "the source file of anything pasted into my program"?

[brendanm]

if a user opens up a file in notepad, has text he wants to use, selects it and copies it, it gets pasted into
my program, some container. i can detect the paste
but need to figure out where it came from

[Drain]

Where it came from? It came from the clipboard. AFAIK, it doesn't "track" it or anything. Why do you even need to do this?

[cjard]

Originally posted by brendanm
if a user opens up a file in notepad, has text he wants to use, selects it and copies it, it gets pasted into
my program, some container. i can detect the paste
but need to figure out where it came from

you mean you need to find out which program placed the data onto the clipboard...

at a rough guess, the easiest way is to get the currently focused program using the windows API call GetForegroundWindow which gives you a hwnd handle, and then GetWindowText which takes a hwnd and gives you a string