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"Boba" <Boba@somewhere.world> wrote in message news:<4147428c@newsgroups.borland.com>...

> cds.dwData=1;//number of strings to be sent

That is not a very good value to use in thisa case.  You should be
sending a unique ID number instead of the number of strings included
in the data.  The VCL itself uses M_COPYDATA for its own uses as well.
 dwData is meant to be used as a means of differentiating between
messages targetted at different windows, etc.  If you need to send the
number of strings, then you should allocate a little extra memory and
put the string count inside the acutal data itself.


> char buff[1024];
> ::ZeroMemory(buff,sizeof(buff));
> ::CopyMemory(buff,Msg.CopyDataStruct->lpData,Msg.CopyDataStruct->cbData);

You can convert the data directly to AnsiString instead of using a
separate buffer:

    AnsiString s;
    s.SetLength(Msg.CopyDataStruct->cbData);
    ::CopyMemory(s.c_str(), Msg.CopyDataStruct->lpData,
Msg.CopyDataStruct->cbData);

Or simply:

    AnsiString s((char*)Msg.CopyDataStruct->lpData,
Msg.CopyDataStruct->cbData);


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