Centaur,
This code is NOT mine. I acquired it along my travels, but it may do the
trick. Full credit to whoever the author was. Use the sample code at the
bottom in the click event of your button.
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
' Obtaining Clipboard Data using API
' (needed for VBA since no Clipboard Object) -- can also paste the data to a
control
' *************************************************************
Declare Function OpenClipboard Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function CloseClipboard Lib "user32" () As Long
Declare Function GetClipboardData Lib "user32" (ByVal wFormat As Long) As
Long
Declare Function GlobalAlloc Lib "kernel32" (ByVal wFlags&, ByVal dwBytes As
Long) As Long
Declare Function GlobalLock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
Declare Function GlobalUnlock Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
Declare Function GlobalSize Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
Declare Function lstrcpy Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpString1 As Any, ByVal
lpString2 As Any) As Long
Public Const GHND = &H42
Public Const CF_TEXT = 1
Public Const MAXSIZE = 4096
' ************* Create the following function **************
Function ClipBoard_GetData()
Dim hClipMemory As Long
Dim lpClipMemory As Long
Dim MyString As String
Dim RetVal As Long
If OpenClipboard(0&) = 0 Then
MsgBox "Cannot open Clipboard. It may be in use by another
application."
Exit Function
End If
' Obtain the handle to the global memory
' block that is referencing the text.
hClipMemory = GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT)
If IsNull(hClipMemory) Then
MsgBox "Could not allocate memory"
GoTo OutOfHere
End If
' Lock Clipboard memory so we can reference
' the actual data string.
lpClipMemory = GlobalLock(hClipMemory)
If Not IsNull(lpClipMemory) Then
MyString = Space$(MAXSIZE)
RetVal = lstrcpy(MyString, lpClipMemory)
RetVal = GlobalUnlock(hClipMemory)
' Peel off the null terminating character.
MyString = Mid(MyString, 1, InStr(1, MyString, Chr$(0), 0) - 1)
Else
MsgBox "Could not lock memory to copy string from."
End If
OutOfHere:
RetVal = CloseClipboard()
ClipBoard_GetData = MyString
End Function
' *************** Simple procedure the Test the code *****************
Private Sub Main()
MsgBox ClipBoard_GetData()
End Sub
Jamie