Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Need Help: Clipboard-Access for OldApps Keywords: Programming, Clipboard, Help Message-ID: <3316@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 90 02:03:51 GMT References: <118@altger.UUCP> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 30 darkness@altger.alt.sub.org (Stefan Willmeroth) writes: >A short question to the real insiders... >How does an Old-App running inside a virtual machine access the >Windows-Clipboard? I suppose Microsoft defined some interrupts to >manage this, because their Word 5.0 (the text-based version) is able >to exchange text and graphics through the Clipboard. This feature >already worked within Windows 2.X and continued to run with Version >3.0. >I already searched my SDK 2.11 documentation (the regular update >hasnt yet arrived here in Germany) for information -- without success. >These function calls would greatly improve my way of exchanging data >between a DOS-App and Microsoft Excel. It would be too much work to >rewrite the whole thing into an Windows-App. It's described in "MS Windows SDK, Programming Tools, Application Style Guide, and Microsoft WIndows Extensions" (that's the Binder) in the "Extensions" part in the last Chapter "Old Application Support" 11 Old Application DDE Interface 12 Old Application Menu Support 13 Old Application Clipboard <-- look here This is from the 2.1 SDK. I have never used these functions. Hope this helps. Wolfgang Strobl #include