Determines if data in a specified format is available on the OLE drag-and-drop DataObject. Available at run time only.
Syntax
oDataObject.GetFormat(nFormat | cFormat)
Arguments
nFormat | cFormat
Specifies the format of the data to retrieve. The following table lists some of the formats with a description of each format. For more information about the data formats available, see the documentation for Visual C++® on the Microsoft Developer Network. You can also create your own format by specifying a unique character string for cFormat.
| Data Format* | nFormat | cFormat |
Description |
| CF_TEXT | 1 | Text format. |
| CF_OEMTEXT | 7 | Text format containing characters in the OEM character set. |
| CF_UNICODETEXT | 13 | Unicode text format, available only under Windows NT. |
| CF_FILES or CF_HDROP | 15 | A handle that identifies a list of files, such as a set of files dragged from the Windows Explorer. |
| CFSTR_OLEVARIANTARRAY | "OLE Variant Array" | An array. Multiple values can be transferred in a single drag and drop operation with this format.
For example, this format can be used to drag a set of items in a list box to another list box. |
| CFSTR_OLEVARIANT | "OLE Variant" | A variant. All data types in Visual FoxPro are represented as variants. This format can be used to drag and drop Visual FoxPro data without losing the data type. |
| CFSTR_VFPSOURCEOBJECT | "VFP Source Object" | A reference to the Visual FoxPro drag source object. |
* Defined in FOXPRO.H.
Remarks
The GetFormat method returns true (.T.) if the DataObject contains data in the format you specify with nFormat or cFormat; otherwise returns false (.F.).