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The Easy Way to Cut Copy and Paste

Title: The Easy Way to Cut Copy and Paste Question: Shows you how to provide clipboard functionality to all relevant controls on a form with the minimum of code. Answer: After a lot of hair pulling out I stumbled across this method of using the windows messages. This is best demonstrated with the following code: procedure TForm1.Cut1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SendMessage (ActiveControl.Handle, WM_Cut, 0, 0); end; procedure TForm1.Copy1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SendMessage (ActiveControl.Handle, WM_Copy, 0, 0); end; procedure TForm1.Paste1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SendMessage (ActiveControl.Handle, WM_Paste, 0, 0); end; If you are developing a MDI application, you will need to make sure that the message is sent to the active child by using: ActiveMDIChild.ActiveControl.Handle