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It's cute just how old the concept of the Windows Clipboard is. The basic APIs were there from the beginning in Windows 1.0, including multiple clipboard forma
by banana_giraffe 4y ago
It's cute just how old the concept of the Windows Clipboard is.
The basic APIs were there from the beginning in Windows 1.0, including multiple clipboard formats, application specific formats, and the ability to register for clipboard changes. More standard formats have been added over the years, but it still supports some ancient formats, like Software Arts' Data Interchange Format.
- ziml77 4y agoI recently looked at the API docs for Windows 1 because I wanted to see if ExitWindows was there from the start (since that naming really only makes sense if Windows has something to exit to). It wasn’t there until Windows 3, but I was surprised to see just how far back many familiar functions go. I expected the API to be far smaller than it was for 1.0
- jwilk 4y agoI'd love to get my hands on old Windows API docs. Are they available online somewhere?
- banana_giraffe 4y agoSome are, here's the Win 1.0 and 2.0 SDK documentation: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/windows-history/windows-library/ https://www.os2museum.com/wp/windows-history/windows-library...