Emptying the Office Clipboard Programmatically
March 13th, 2010Hello All,
I have a VC++ 6.0 kiosk application that uses PowerPoint
2002. During execution the application copies and pastes
slides from one presentation to another. It can run for
several weeks and during this time may copy and paste
hundreds of slides. It uses the SlideRange collection's
Copy method and the Slides collection's Paste method to do
this.
During testing we have found that everytime a copy and
paste is done, PowerPoint gradually increases its memory
usage (from 8MB up to approx. 130MB) until eventually the
Paste method fails with a run time error (16389).
I presume this is occurring because the Office Clipboard
is filling up with all the copying and pasting that's
being done. My question is does anyone know how to
programmatically clear out the Office Clipboard? We have
tried emptying the Windows clipboard but this has no
effect.
Regards
Martin
No one has been able to track down the memory leak at all, so it is generally considered a good idea to restart any continous PowerPoint task at least once an hour.
If I hear any more on any kind of workaround, I will let you know.
I think you got the answer over on the PowerPoint newsgroup, but just in case you didn't see it it canb e found via Google Groups at Tiny URL For Martin (http://tinyurl.com/icur)
Basically, the most recent information is that the registry key information is on Shyam's site.
The only work around we can think of is to periodically (every 24 hours) get our C++ application to close PowerPoint and then re-open it.
Regards
Martin
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