Clipboard Spy
What is it?
Clipboard Spy displays a list of items that are currently available on the clipboard. These items can be saved to disk, launched via the "Send To" menu, or dragged onto an application. I wrote Clipboard Spy so that I could examine the OLE data that applications like Word shove on the clipboard. Maybe somebody else will find it useful too. Click here for screen-shots.
 
Let me at it!
This is MFC bloatware so I apologise for the huge size of my executable - about 110KB when zipped. Get it here.
 
Source Code
Clipboard Spy demonstrates the following:
  • Installing a viewer in the clipboard chain
  • Office 97-style context menu
  • Explorer-style "Send To" menu
  • OLE drag-drop

A project file is included for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Get it here (about 42KB).

 
 

This page was last updated on 19 July 1999.

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