Read/Write text on clipboard

	CString source; 
	//put your text in source
	if(OpenClipboard())
	{
		HGLOBAL clipbuffer;
		char * buffer;
		EmptyClipboard();
		clipbuffer = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_DDESHARE, source.GetLength()+1);
		buffer = (char*)GlobalLock(clipbuffer);
		strcpy(buffer, LPCSTR(source));
		GlobalUnlock(clipbuffer);
		SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT,clipbuffer);
		CloseClipboard();
	}


 

How to get text off of the clipboard

This is easy really but here it is for completeness

	char * buffer;
	if(OpenClipboard())
	{
		
		buffer = (char*)GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT);
		//do something with buffer here 
		//before it goes out of scope
		
	}

	CloseClipboard();