6 Appendix A: Product Behavior

The information in this specification is applicable to the following Microsoft products or supplemental software. References to product versions include updates to those products.

  • Windows 2000 operating system Service Pack 4 (SP4)

  • Windows XP operating system

  • Windows Server 2003 operating system

Exceptions, if any, are noted in this section. If an update version, service pack or Knowledge Base (KB) number appears with a product name, the behavior changed in that update. The new behavior also applies to subsequent updates unless otherwise specified. If a product edition appears with the product version, behavior is different in that product edition.

Unless otherwise specified, any statement of optional behavior in this specification that is prescribed using the terms "SHOULD" or "SHOULD NOT" implies product behavior in accordance with the SHOULD or SHOULD NOT prescription. Unless otherwise specified, the term "MAY" implies that the product does not follow the prescription.

<1> Section 2.2.2.6: In Windows environments, for non-predefined clipboard formats the clipboard name corresponds with return values of the GetClipboardFormatName function [MSDN-CLIPBOARD].

<2> Section 2.2.2.8: In Windows environments, for non-predefined clipboard formats, the clipboard name corresponds with return values of the GetClipboardFormatName function [MSDN-CLIPBOARD].

<3> Section 2.2.3.1: In Windows environments, these structure fields map to the METAFILEPICT structure [MSDN-METAFILEPICT].

<4> Section 2.2.3.1: In Windows environments, this is the data used by the SetMetaFileBitsEx function and returned by the GetMetaFileBitsEx function [MSDN-META].

<5> Section 2.2.3.2: In Windows environments, this is the data used by the SetEnhMetaFileBits function and returned by the GetEnhMetaFileBits function [MSDN-META].

<6> Section 2.2.3.6: In Windows environments, the arbitrary clipboard format data is obtained by performing a GlobalLock ([MSDN-GlobalLock]) operation on the handle returned by the GetClipboardData function [MSDN-CLIPBOARD].