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Uncle Dan
Uncle Dan

Reputation: 3290

Overriding the Copy-Paste capability under Windows OS?

I'm pretty sure that's a very difficult task. Did anyone out there know how we can overrides the copy-paste capability under Windows OS?

(Overriding for the complete environment... patching the Windows OS itself.)

Ex : Trim the copied text after copying it.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1175

Answers (2)

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 25824

It is highly unlikely that you actually need to patch the OS itself, considering that Windows always provides the ability to hook on the clipboard events directly and override them however you wish. See How to get a clipboard paste notification and provide my own data? .

Upvotes: 1

Ry-
Ry-

Reputation: 224859

Yes, but you haven't specified the language. Here's how you might in VB.NET (put this in a Timer's Tick handler):

If Clipboard.ContainsText() Then
     Dim s As String = Clipboard.GetText()
     Dim t As String = s.Trim()
     If s <> t Then Clipboard.SetText(t) 'Trim all text, for example
End If

Upvotes: 0

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