CFSTR_FILECONTENTS and CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR clipboard formats
 
Hello!
I'm developing an NSE using ATL and C++ on VS2003 and trying to support the 
CFSTR_FILECONTENTS and CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR clipboard formats to support 
copying from my NSE to Explorer. I'm trying to use these CF's since they were 
suggested as the solution to one of my problems by some people on this forum. 
I've looked at the documentation and tried to figure out how to use them, but 
apparently with no success. I face a problem already when 
CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR is used to display the context menu to allow pasting: 
All I get is that just 'Paste shortcut' is enabled on the context menu. I'm 
pretty sure I do something wrong when specifying the names of the files to 
move (by the way, the files don't exist yet on my PC, so I just specify 
placeholder names, they'll be retrieved when 'Paste' is selected, as a ersult 
of CFSTR_FILECONTENTS being used)
Following is the code I use in my IDataObject::GetData method, in the case 
of CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR. 
if (pFormatetc->cfFormat == RegisterClipboardFormat(CFSTR_FILECONTENTS)){
                    //  ... Er... we'll see what happens here...
                    return S_OK;
}else if (pFormatetc->cfFormat == 
RegisterClipboardFormat(CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR)){
                        UINT bytesToAllocate=0;                
                        
                        UINT j=0;
                        LPTSTR* filesToRequest=new 
LPTSTR[this->m_numberOfItems];
                        DWORD length=MAX_PATH;
                        FILEDESCRIPTOR* descriptors = new 
FILEDESCRIPTOR[this->m_numberOfItems];   // To fill the FILEGROUPDESCRIPTOR
                        for(int i=0; i<this->m_numberOfItems; i++){
                                LPITEMIDLIST  tempPidl = 
m_PidlMgr.GetLastItem(m_pidl[i]);
                                filesToRequest[i]=new TCHAR[MAX_PATH];
                                m_PidlMgr.GetName(tempPidl,filesToRequest[i]);
                                .....
                                
bytesToAllocate+=(_tcslen(filesToRequest[i])+1);                // Add 1 to 
keep track of
the ending \0
                                _tcscpy(descriptors[i].cFileName, 
filesToRequest[i]);
                        }
                        HGLOBAL hgDescriptor = ::GlobalAlloc(GPTR,
sizeof(FILEGROUPDESCRIPTOR)+(sizeof(TCHAR) * bytesToAllocate) +
(this->m_numberOfItems + sizeof(FILEDESCRIPTOR)));
                        FILEGROUPDESCRIPTOR* 
group=(FILEGROUPDESCRIPTOR*)::GlobalLock(hgDescriptor);
                        group->cItems=this->m_numberOfItems;
                        
            // The problem is likely here:
                        ::CopyMemory(group->fgd, descriptors, (sizeof(TCHAR) 
* bytesToAllocate) +
(this->m_numberOfItems + sizeof(FILEDESCRIPTOR)));
            // OR something like
                        //group->fgd=descriptors;
                        ::GlobalUnlock(hgDescriptor);
                        pMedium->tymed = TYMED_HGLOBAL;
                        pMedium->hGlobal = hgDescriptor;                
                        pMedium->pUnkForRelease = NULL;
                       
                        for(int i=0; i<this->m_numberOfItems; i++) delete[] 
filesToRequest[i];
                        delete[]filesToRequest;
                        
                        return S_OK;
                }
I haven't managed to reach the code for CFSTR_FILECONTENTS yet, so any 
suggestion on how to manage that situation as well would be appreciated! By 
the way, the process which actually retrieves the selected files puts them as 
actual files in a temporary directory, so what Explorer should do is just 
move them to the 'Paste' target. Should I perform the moving process? Does 
anyone have code snippets on how to deal with these formats? I can't get it 
from the documentation!
Thank you very much for your help!