Shell Programming: Text scraps on desktop

[jeffbarth]

MacIntosh has a feature so that you can drag some text onto the desktop, and it will be put into an auto-created file, which I think they call a "scrap". I was thinking about trying to write something like that myself for Windows, but thought I'd check if anyone else had already done it, or thought about it. Thanks.

[Clearcode]

Windows NT at least does exactly the same thing - try dragging a section of a word document, for example.

[jeffbarth]

Thanks for that tip.

Office Docs can do this, and maybe that means that WinNT provides something to enable the 'scrap'. But I haven't found any other apps that can do this. I tried dragging text from email in Outlook, text from notepad, text from a webpage in IE. None of those worked. So... maybe it requires software in both the shell/desktop and in the app...

[Alex Fedotov]

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/shellcc/shell/Shell_basics/DataScenarios.htm#scrap