Show contents of the windows clipboard

Question

How can I see what the Windows clipboard currently contains without using the paste operation?

I don't want the "pasted-to" application to perform any actions on the clipboard (e.g. formatting text, converting).

Is there a tool which shows the clipboard's objects and their format (CF_BITMAP, CF_TEXT, etc.) and content (in simple bytes e.g.)?

Answer 1

It's a Win32 (very) FAQ.
See complete code on Win32 api Group
(formats enumeration and hooking, C code)

Answer 2

If using .NET you can query the Clipboard object.

Answer 3

Since he's asking for a tool, doesn't seem like Win32 API is going to directly help. There is a list of clipboard manager tools at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipboard_manager

Here's another: http://m8software.com/clipboards/freeclip/freeclip.htm

Answer 4

How about the regular old Clipbrd.exe clipboard viewer from Windows XP? That'll still run on Vista/Windows7, IIRC.

Answer 5

1) select run from start menu. 2) enter "clipbrd.exe" in it.

then you can see the clipboard items in the windows systems .

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Ajas M.M (Student :School of computer science .MG University campus) for more [email protected]