Clipboard formats can be viewed by selecting the required format in the left list.
A user typically carries out clipboard operations by choosing commands from an application's Edit menu. Following is a brief description of the standard clipboard commands.
The clipboard formats defined by the system are called standard clipboard formats. These clipboard formats are described in the following table.
Text | Text format. Each line ends with a carriage return/linefeed (CR-LF) combination. A null character signals the end of the data. Use this format for ANSI text. |
Unicode Text Format | Unicode text format. Each line ends with a carriage return/linefeed (CR-LF) combination. A null character signals the end of the data. |
Rich Text Format | Rich Text Format RTF. |
HTML Format | HyperText Markup Language Format. HTML is entirely text format (to be, among other things, in the HTML spirit, and uses UTF-8) and includes a description, an optional context, and, within the context, the fragment. |
OEM Text | Text format containing characters in the OEM character set. Each line ends with a carriage return/linefeed (CR-LF) combination. A null character signals the end of the data. |
Locale Identifier | The data is a handle to the locale identifier associated with text in the clipboard. When you close the clipboard, if it contains CF_TEXT data but no CF_LOCALE data, the system automatically sets the CF_LOCALE format to the current input language. |
Bitmap | A handle to a bitmap (HBITMAP). |
Enhanced Metafile | A handle to an enhanced metafile (HENHMETAFILE). |
Metafile Picture Format | Handle to a metafile picture format as defined by the METAFILEPICT structure. |
Microsoft Symbolic Link Format | Microsoft Symbolic Link (SYLK) format. |
Data Interchange Format | Software Arts'' Data Interchange Format. |
Tagged-image File Format | Tagged-image file format. |
Bitmap DIB | A memory object containing a BITMAPINFO structure followed by the bitmap bits. |
Bitmap DIBV5 | A memory object containing a BITMAPV5HEADER structure followed by the bitmap color space information and the bitmap bits. |
Color Palette | Handle to a color palette. Whenever an application places data in the clipboard that depends on or assumes a color palette, it should place the palette on the clipboard as well. |
Data for The Pen Extensions | Data for the pen extensions to the Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing. |
Complex Audio Data RIFF | Represents audio data more complex than can be represented in a CF_WAVE standard wave format. |
Wave | Represents audio data in one of the standard wave formats, such as 11 kHz or 22 kHz Pulse Code Modulation (PCM). |
List of Files | A handle to type HDROP that identifies a list of files. An application can retrieve information about the files by passing the handle to the DragQueryFile functions. |
Owner-display Format | Owner-display format. The clipboard owner must display and update the clipboard viewer window, and receive the WM_ASKCBFORMATNAME, WM_HSCROLLCLIPBOARD, WM_PAINTCLIPBOARD, WM_SIZECLIPBOARD, and WM_VSCROLLCLIPBOARD messages. |
Text Display Dormat | Text display format associated with a private format. |
Bitmap Display Format | Bitmap display format associated with a private format. |
Metafile-picture Display Format | Metafile-picture display format associated with a private format. |
Enhanced Metafile Display Format | Enhanced metafile display format associated with a private format. |
Picture | Delphi Picture. |
Component | Delphi Component. |