Clipboard data

[Chazzmundo]

Hi everyone, I am trying to retrieve clipboard data and after looking online I came up with the following:

//get data
HANDLE clip;
string clip_text = "";

if (OpenClipboard(NULL)) 
{
  clip = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
  clip_text = (char*)clip;
  cout << "Text: "<<clip_text<<endl<<endl;
  CloseClipboard();
}

this results in the error message:

203 C:\Users\Chazz & Bill\Documents\prog\input\main.cpp `HANDLE' undeclared (first use this function)

althuogh this is the variable type it tells me to use online. Am i missing an include file?

So far I have:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream> //file handling
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

If it helps I am using Dev-C.

Any ideas?

Thank you for any help you can provide :)

[Chazzmundo]

SOLVED!!!

I forgot to use:

#include <windows.h>

[Chazzmundo]

UNSOLVED : Sort of :s

Ok i got it to copy from clipboard but now i want to set it to the clipboard.

If i use

if(OpenClipboard(NULL))
           {
            	HGLOBAL hText = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_DDESHARE, final_text.length()-1);
                char * pText = (char*)GlobalLock(hText);
                
                const string f_text = final_text;
                strcpy(pText, "testing"); //copy to clipboard
                GlobalUnlock(hText);
               
                OpenClipboard(NULL);
                EmptyClipboard();
                SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hText);
                CloseClipboard();
           }

it works, but as soon as i try changing:

strcpy(pText, "testing"); //copy to clipboard

to:

strcpy(pText, f_text); //copy to clipboard

to set the text copied to clipboard according to a variable it does not let me, how do i go about solving this :s its the very last part of the program and i really would like it finished asap :)

Thank you for any help you can provide :)

[LB]

Maybe it takes a c string, try f_text.c_str() intead.

[Chazzmundo]

:D it works thank you very much but can you explain why this works and using regular strings and constants don't please?