Problems with RegisterClipboardFormat for OLE Drag/Drop

[coco86]

I'm not sure if this is a Visual Basic problem or an API problem but maybe someone here can help

I'm trying to create an application that allows a document dragged from Groupwise to be "captured" (I just want the document id and and library) and stored in a database.

According to the Visual Basic help files:
It's possible for the GetData and SetData methods to use data formats other than those listed in Settings, including user-defined formats registered with Windows via the RegisterClipboardFormat() API function.

However, RegisterClipboardFormat returns a long-

Declare Function RegisterClipboardFormat Lib "user32" Alias "RegisterClipboardFormatA" (ByVal lpString As String) As Long

-and GetData requires the input to be an integer.

Since RegisterClipboardFormat is returning a value in excess of 40000, it's not working for me.

Any idea what I can do to fix this?


-Coco

 

[Claude78]

Hi Coco86,

did you find solution because I get same problem...


Claude78

 

[coco86]

nope, sorry...never did. We've now switched to Outlook so it's no longer an issue.

-Coco