Getting hinstance without WinMain

[Chris Saunders]

Is it possible to get the hinstance of a program
without having a WinMain function?

To put it another way, is it possible from a
regular "C" main function to get the hinstance?

Regards
Chris Saunders
chris.s...@sympatico.ca

[Ali R.]

You don't have an hinstance if you don't have a WinMain. WinMain has
nothing to do with C vs. C++. It has to do with Windows program vs. Console
(DOS) program. And a Console program doesn't have a hInstance.

Ali R.

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[James Brown]

A console program certainly *does* have a hInstance. A console
program is a windows program in every right - the only difference
between a console program and a "windows" program is that for a
console program, a flag is set in the executable header which tells windows
to automatically create a console for the process when it starts, other
than that they are exactly the same.

To answer the original question, to find the hInstance at any time:

hInstance = GetModuleHandle(NULL);

Regards,
James

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[Severian]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:49:58 -0500, "Chris Saunders"
<chris.s...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Is it possible to get the hinstance of a program
>without having a WinMain function?
>
>To put it another way, is it possible from a
>regular "C" main function to get the hinstance?

HINSTANCE hinst = GetModuleHandle(NULL);

On Win32 platforms I am familiar with, this will always return
0x00400000.

- Sev

[Ali R.]

My bad.

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