COleDataObject::GetGlobalData

HGLOBAL GetGlobalData( CLIPFORMAT cfFormat, LPFORMATETC lpFormatEtc = NULL );

Return Value

The handle of the global memory block containing the data if successful; otherwise NULL.

Parameters

cfFormat

The format in which data is to be returned. This parameter can be one of the predefined Clipboard formats or the value returned by the native Windows RegisterClipboardFormat function.

lpFormatEtc

Points to a FORMATETC structure describing the format in which data is to be returned. Provide a value for this parameter if you want to specify additional format information beyond the Clipboard format specified by cfFormat. If it is NULL, the default values are used for the other fields in the FORMATETC structure.

Remarks

Call this function to allocate a global memory block and to retrieve data in the specified format into an HGLOBAL.

For more information, see FORMATETC in the OLE 2 Programmer's Reference, Volume 1.

For more information, see RegisterClipboardFormat in the Win32 documentation.

COleDataObject OverviewClass MembersHierarchy Chart

See Also   COleDataObject::GetData, COleDataObject::GetFileData, COleDataObject::IsDataAvailable