Copying text to the clipboard in AVDocDidOpen event handler causes Acrobat 9 to crash

Question

I'm trying to copy the filename of a document to the clipboard in a plugin with my AVDocDidOpen event handler.  It works for the first file opened; however when a second file is opened, Acrobat crashes.  The description in the application event log is: "Faulting application acrobat.exe, version 9.1.0.163, faulting module gdi32.dll, version 5.1.2600.5698, fault address 0x000074cc."
I've confirmed that the specific WIN32 function that causes this to happen is SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hText);  When that line is commented out and remaining code is left unchanged, Adobe doesn't crash.
Is there an SDK function that I should be using instead of WIN32's SetClipboardData()?  Alternately, are there other SDK functions that I need to call be before or after I call SetClipboardData()
Bill Erickson

Answer 1

Leonard,
I tried it with both "DURING, HANDLER, END_HANDLER" and "try catch," as shown below.  However, it doesn't crash in the event handler; it crashes later, so the HANDLER/catch block is never hit.
The string that's passed to SetClipboardData() is good, because I'm able to paste it into the filename text box of the print dialog when I try to create the "connector line" PDF.  I also got rid of all the string manipulation and tried to pass a zero-length string to the clipboard but it still crashes.
Here's the code:
ACCB1 void ACCB2 CFkDisposition::myAVDocDidOpenCallback(AVDoc doc, Int32 error, void *clientData)
    PDDoc pdDoc = AVDocGetPDDoc(doc);
    char* pURL = ASFileGetURL(PDDocGetFile(annotDataRec->thePDDoc));
    if (pURL)    {
        if (strstr(pURL, "file://") && strstr(pURL, "Reviewed.pdf")) {
            // Opened from file system so copy filename to clipboard for connector line report
            char myURL[1000];
            strcpy(myURL, pURL);
            ASfree(pURL);    // Do this before we allocate a Windows handle just in case Windows messes with this pointer
            pURL = NULL;
            HGLOBAL hText = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE, 1000);
            if (hText)    {
                try
                    // Skip path info and go right to filename
                    char *pText = (char *)GlobalLock(hText);
                    char *pWork = strrchr(myURL,'/');
                    if (pWork)    {
                        strcpy(pText, pWork+1);
                    } else {
                        strcpy(pText, myURL);
                    char *pEnd = pText + strlen(pText);    // Get null terminator address
                    // Replace "%20" in filename with " "
                    pWork = strstr(pText, "%20");
                    while (pWork)    {
                        *pWork = ' ';
                        memmove(pWork+1, pWork+3, (pEnd - (pWork+2)));
                        pWork = strstr(pText, "%20");
                    // Append a new file extension
                    pWork = strstr(pText, ".pdf");
                    *pWork = 0;    // truncate the string before ".pdf"
                    strcat(pWork,".Connectors.pdf");
                    GlobalUnlock(hText);     // Must do this BEFORE SetClipboardData()
                    // Write it to the clipboard
                    OpenClipboard(NULL);
                    EmptyClipboard();
                    SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT, hText);     // Here's the culprit
                    CloseClipboard();
                    GlobalFree(hText);
                } catch (char * str) {
                    AVAlertNote(str);
        if (pURL)
            ASfree(pURL);