🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

I want to write to the Clipboard of the currently
logged on user from within a Windows service.

I've created the service with BCBs TService class.
To write to the clipboard I first tried the global
TClipboard instance. Since this didn't work I tried
to use the APIs directly, as described in the MSDN help.

Like this:

      if(FALSE == OpenClipboard(NULL))
      {
         Log("OpenClipboard failed");
         return;
      }

      HGLOBAL hGlobal = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE, dataSize+1);

      void* ptr = GlobalLock(hGlobal);
      CopyMemory(ptr, buffer, dataSize+1);

      if(FALSE == SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hGlobal))
         Log(GetLastErrorString());

      GlobalUnlock(hGlobal);
      GlobalFree(hGlobal);

      CloseClipboard();

However, the text never arrives in the clipboard. The problem
is that I don't get any error log so I don't know what went wrong.
I'm not very familiar with security issues so I don't know whether
the service can write to the clipboard at all.

By the way, I switched the services Interactive property to 'true'
but that didn't help.

Any ideas welcome!
Nick