I came up with what I thought was a clever scheme for my program. I
created a custom component that has Read and Write methods to a stream.
This way I can read and write my components to a TFileStream for my file
I/O. This part works fine but I also had in mind that I could Read and
Write these items to a TMemoryStream and then copy the MemoryStream to
the clipboard for a neat and easy multiple item Cut, Copy and Paste
routine. The catch is that writing custom data to the clipboard requires
a memory handle and TMemoryStream only provides a pointer. Is there any
way to get a handle from this pointer? Does a TMemoryStream not use
gloabl memory?

I know I could allocate some global memory and then copy the stream
there but it seems kind of kludgy. Any other solutions?

Mitch Wolberg,
RockWare, Inc.

In article <3744775B.C6CD1...@dnvr.uswest.net>, Mitch Wolberg

Search DeJaNews for Chris Fairall and/or Saving Object to Clipboard

hth

Gordon.

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links)

MGCSoft

Thanks for the lead. I actually came to the same solution last night. My
problem with it is that it still requires 2 times the size of the data
in memory. Its probably what I'll end up doing unless someone has a
better idea.

Mitch Wolberg,
RockWare, Inc.

In article <3744775B.C6CD1...@dnvr.uswest.net>, Mitch Wolberg

Have you looked at the code for the SetComponent and GetComponent methods of
TClipBoard in Clipbrd.pas. It might give you some ideas.

Alan Lloyd
alangll...@aol.com