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Get notified when the content of the clipboard changes
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Title: get notified when the content of the clipboard changes?
{
An application can be notified of changes in the data stored in the
Windows clipboard by registering itself as a Clipboard Viewer.
Clipboard viewers use two API calls and several messages to communicate
with the Clipboard viewer chain. SetClipboardViewer adds a window to the
beginning of the chain and returns a handle to the next viewer in the chain.
ChangeClipboardChain removes a window from the chain. When a clipboard change occurs,
the first window in the clipboard viewer chain is notified via the WM_DrawClipboard
message and must pass the message on to the next window. To do this, our application
must store the next window along in the chain to forward messages to and also respond
to the WM_ChangeCBChain message which is sent whenever any other clipboard viewer on
the system is added or removed to ensure the next window along is valid.
}
unit Unit1;
interface
uses
Windows, Messages, Forms, Classes, Controls, StdCtrls;
type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
Button1: TButton;
Button2: TButton;
procedure Button1Click(Sender : TObject);
procedure Button2Click(Sender : TObject);
procedure FormCreate(Sender : TObject);
procedure FormDestroy(Sender : TObject);
private
FNextClipboardViewer: HWND;
procedure WMChangeCBChain(var Msg : TWMChangeCBChain); message WM_CHANGECBCHAIN;
procedure WMDrawClipboard(var Msg : TWMDrawClipboard); message WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD;
end;
var
Form1 : TForm1;
implementation
{$R *.DFM}
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender : TObject);
begin
{ Initialize variable }
FNextClipboardViewer := 0;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender : TObject);
begin
if FNextClipboardViewer 0 then
MessageBox(0, 'This window is already registered!', nil, 0)
else
{ Add to clipboard chain }
FNextClipboardViewer := SetClipboardViewer(Handle);
end;
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender : TObject);
begin
{ Remove from clipboard chain }
ChangeClipboardChain(Handle, FNextClipboardViewer);
FNextClipboardViewer := 0;
end;
procedure TForm1.WMChangeCBChain(var Msg : TWMChangeCBChain);
begin
inherited;
{ mark message as done }
Msg.Result := 0;
{ the chain has changed }
if Msg.Remove = FNextClipboardViewer then
{ The next window in the clipboard viewer chain had been removed. We recreate it. }
FNextClipboardViewer := Msg.Next
else
{ Inform the next window in the clipboard viewer chain }
SendMessage(FNextClipboardViewer, WM_CHANGECBCHAIN, Msg.Remove, Msg.Next);
end;
procedure TForm1.WMDrawClipboard(var Msg : TWMDrawClipboard);
begin
inherited;
{ Clipboard content has changed }
try
MessageBox(0, 'Clipboard content has changed!', 'Clipboard Viewer', MB_ICONINFORMATION);
finally
{ Inform the next window in the clipboard viewer chain }
SendMessage(FNextClipboardViewer, WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD, 0, 0);
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormDestroy(Sender : TObject);
begin
if FNextClipboardViewer 0 then
begin
{ Remove from clipboard chain }
ChangeClipboardChain(Handle, FNextClipboardViewer);
FNextClipboardViewer := 0;
end;
end;
end.
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