I don't want to get your hopes up. The chances are really slim that you
could retrieve this data from the Windows clipboard.
The "clipboard" is actually RAM. There is no guarantee that the data that
was saved to the clipboard is in contiguous RAM, so even if you used the
Windows API's to read that memory, you'd have to "dump" all of it. And this
would have to be pretty immediate, because the OS is continually moving
things in and out of RAM while it does OS housekeeping, even if the user
isn't doing any further computer operations. Windows also uses "temp" files
to temporarily hold some of this information while it swaps data in and out
of memory, so copying those "temp" files to a more permanent storage place
would also need to be done immediately, too, in case some of that clipboard
data was actually saved in a temp file. And there's no guarantee that data
in these temp files could be identified as "clipboard" data.
Your questions would probably be better answered in a Windows forum, where
the Windows whizzes hang out. Good luck.
HTH.
Gunny
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