Roo, I have already responded to my original post to say that I have found what I needed and given a link to a page with the answer. Your post does not answer the question of handling custom formats and neither does the help file as you suggest.
Found what I needed:
The following url has a set of procedures which uses a stream to dump the binary contents of the clipboard to a file, which can then be viewed with a hex editor.
http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/torry/showcode.php?id=945
Also useful for analysing the clipboard are the...
I'm using Delphi 4 and want to write a program which uses clipboard data produced by another application.
The data seems to be some kind of custom clipboard format.
I don't know how the data is formatted or how large the data is, so I would like to just get a binary copy of the data to analyse...
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