Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Programming Interfaces

> ## The system clipboard and Progress

> Figure 8–1 shows the typical interactions between a Progress 4GL application and other graphical applications using the clipboard.

> Figure 8–1: Progress interactions using the system clipboard

> The dotted box emphasizes that, from the user’s viewpoint, the clipboard is essentially invisible.

> Progress supports clipboard interactions with other graphical applications in the Windows environments. In character mode, Progress supports clipboard interactions between fields in a single OpenEdge application. Using the `CLIPBOARD` system handle and an appropriate set of user-interface triggers, you can define the response of your OpenEdge application to the standard clipboard operations on your system. For example, you can eliminate cut operations (that remove data) and provide only copy and paste; or you can specify how the data is transferred, whether all or part of it is transferred, and where it goes when it is pasted into your OpenEdge application.

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