Author: Jonas Bilinkevicius

I would like to be able to go to Windows Explorer, select a series of files, and 
then allow the user to "Paste" these files into my application. I simply need a 
list of the file names that were copied to the clipboard. Anyone know how to access 
this list?

Answer:

You can use OLE Drag & Drop, but since Explorer creates a standard CF_HDROP 
clipboard block you can also hack it this way:

1   uses
2     clipbrd, shellapi;
3   
4   {$R *.DFM}
5   
6   procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
7   var
8     f: THandle;
9     buffer: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
10    i, numFiles: Integer;
11  begin
12    Clipboard.Open;
13    try
14      f := Clipboard.GetAsHandle(CF_HDROP);
15      if f <> 0 then
16      begin
17        numFiles := DragQueryFile(f, $FFFFFFFF, nil, 0);
18        memo1.Clear;
19        for i := 0 to numfiles - 1 do
20        begin
21          buffer[0] := #0;
22          DragQueryFile(f, i, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
23          memo1.lines.add(buffer);
24        end;
25      end;
26    finally
27      Clipboard.close;
28    end;
29  end;