How can I do clipboard-like operations without using the real clipboard?

You can inject keyboard keystrokes into other applications without using the clipboard. But then you would not be using Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V or Ctrl+Insert/Shift+Insert as your hotkey.

You can inject keyboard keystrokes into other applications without using the clipboard. But then you would not be using Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V or Ctrl+Insert/Shift+Insert as your hotkey. Maybe you want another global hotkey (yes you can do that) that will find the currently focused window, and send keystrokes to it.

You can do that. delphitricks.com/source-code/windows/sim....

This seems to be along the lines of what I would like to do. Basically I want to be able pull the password from an encrypted database and post it to my bank website, email, online games etc, without using the clipboard as an extra precaution against keyloggers and the like – JamesW Mar 3 at 21:41 I believe that the bank website people will be actively working to block you. – Warren P Mar 3 at 21:51 4 Keyloggers will see the window messages that you will be sending.So actually, you won't help that problem one bit.

:-) – Warren P Mar 3 at 21:53 Accepting Warrens info, I was assuming that a custom made app would circumvent the possibility of a keylogger if there was no typing or clipboard copy and paste happening. Thanks Warren – JamesW Mar 3 at 15:11.

Guess you can encrypt the Data saved to your Clipboard on Copy and Decrypt it on Paste. What you need is to hook in the clipboard notification system, so you can get and respond to it's change events. As Warren said maby have to use other Hotkeys thn Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V i'm not sure about this.

Read this article: Listening to the Clipboard: Clipboard Delphi Spy with Custom Clipboard Formats.

You should not use the clipboard for this at all. Unless the user wants to put data onto the clipboard, you should NOT put data onto the clipboard. The clipboard is a shared resource, intended for the convenience of the user, not the programmer.

1 Chris, the question was how NOT to use the clipboard; in fact, the phrase "without...the clipboard" was actually used twice in the question. Read a little more carefully, maybe? – Ken White Mar 4 at 1:46 1 To the downvoters - Yes I did read the question, but I knew that the solutions would inevitably include ideas that DO use the clipboard, such as the one by O.D. and I want to discourage that sort of solution.So if you're going to ding me, fine, but at least downvote those answers too!

– Chris Thornton Mar 4 at 15:20 Chris this is exactly my concern, I do not want to use the clipboard in any fashion. Though it seems that most solutions to my problem lead back to the unsecure clipboard – JamesW Mar 8 at 15:02.

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