How to hook copy/paste events?

I'm trying to have copy/paste (and maybe cut) trigger a method that I have written. I have looked into it and so far I have not found an easy way (such as with open/close/save events).
I saw some stuff involving AVDocSelectionPasteProc and AVDocSelectionCopyProc but it looks like I would need to create a selection server and then register these with that. I'm not quite sure how to go about doing that. I don't want to replace what happens during copy/paste events, just have them trigger a message to be sent out. Is there an easier way of doing this, or how should I go about doing it?
Thanks

No, there isn't any way to hook these events.
And even if you could, would it be for ALL copy/paste operations, only for some, for certainly data types? I would recommend that you look at simply hooking the standard OS clipboard/scrap operations.

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