Basic Clipboard Operations (Cut/Copy/Paste) Using Delphi's TClipboard Class

in Using VCL :: The Windows Clipboard represents the container for any text or graphics that are cut, copied or pasted from or to an application. In general, it can hold only one piece of the same kind of data at a time. If we send new information of the same format to the Clipboard, we wipe out what was there before. The contents of the Clipboard stays with the Clipboard even after we paste those contents into another program.

Read the full article to find out how to use the TClipboard class to implement cut-copy-paste features in your Delphi application.

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