Pasting from Clipboard into Windwos Explorer

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Hello! I'm writing an namespace extension in C++ using ATL. I'm dealing with
files which are not on the machine where the NSE is running. I want to
provide a way to copy the remote files into the local machine. I provide a
DnD mechanism, by which I record the names of the files when the user starts
to drag, then load the bytes just when the user drops.
I wanted to provide also the Copy/Paste functionality, both through
CTRL-C/CTRL-V and through the use of context menus. I thought of copying the
file names into the clipboard when the user 'copies' and retrieving the bytes
when the user 'pastes', but how can I catch the event 'paste' if the user
wants to paste the files in Explorer (i.e. outside of my NSE)? I chose this
approach because I thought it was the one used by Explorer, but if you have
other suggestions, please tell me!
Thank you in advance!
 
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I wanted to provide also the Copy/Paste functionality, both through
CTRL-C/CTRL-V and through the use of context menus. I thought of copying the
file names into the clipboard when the user 'copies' and retrieving the bytes
when the user 'pastes', but how can I catch the event 'paste' if the user
wants to paste the files in Explorer (i.e. outside of my NSE)?
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Are you supporting the clipboard format that the shell uses for files
or something of your own? Have a look at "Handling Shell Data Transfer
Scenarios" on MSDN.

Dave
 
In the DnD I'm just supporting CF_HDROP! Thanks for the link, I'll go through
it at once! It seems I'll be able to reuse my IDataObject implementation!!! ;)
 
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