The clipboard provides a mechanism that makes it possible for applications to pass data handles to other applications. For more information about the clipboard, see the Microsoft Windows Guide to Programming.
Clipboard functions carry out data interchange between Windows applications. Following are the clipboard functions:
| Function | Description |
| ChangeClipboardChain | Removes a window from the chain of clipboard viewers. |
| CloseClipboard | Closes the clipboard. |
| EmptyClipboard | Empties the clipboard and reassigns clipboard ownership. |
| EnumClipboardFormats | Enumerates the available clipboard formats. |
| GetClipboardData | Retrieves data from the clipboard. |
| GetClipboardFormatName | Retrieves the clipboard format. |
| GetClipboardOwner | Retrieves the window handle associated with the current clipboard owner. |
| GetClipboardViewer | Retrieves the handle of the first window in the clipboard-viewer chain. |
| GetOpenClipboardWindow | Retrieves the handle of the window that currently has the clipboard open. |
| GetPriorityClipboardFormat | Retrieves data from the clipboard in the first format in a prioritized format list. |
| IsClipboardFormatAvailable | Returns nonzero if the data in the given format is available. |
| OpenClipboard | Opens the clipboard. |
| RegisterClipboardFormat | Registers a new clipboard format. |
| SetClipboardData | Copies a handle of data for the clipboard. |
| SetClipboardViewer | Adds a handle to the clipboard-viewer chain. |
For detailed information about clipboard functions, see the Microsoft Windows Programmer's Reference, Volume 2.