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Article #513Re: What is the best way to get HINSTANCE of a DLL?
From: Tom W. Brown
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:06
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:06
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In article <1992Nov9.070214.3613@leland.Stanford.EDU>, kmh@leland.Stanford.EDU (khanhmy hoang) writes: |> |> I am in an DLL and need to do a LoadString from the DLL's stringtable |> and wonder what is the nicest way to get the HINSTANCE of the DLL to |> use as LoadString's first argument. The DLL is given its module handle (an HINSTANCE) as a parameter to LibMain. You should save this value in the data segment of the library to use for this purpose. Methods that rely on a module handle being related in some way to DS are fraught with peril and are probably doomed when you port to NT. NOTE: followups directed to comp.os.mw-windows.programmer.misc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Brown | "'ow d'you know 'e's a king? PE Nelson Systems | 'cause 'e 'asn't got shit all over 'im!" twbrown@pe-nelson.com | Monty Python and the Holy Grail ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!lax.pe-nelson.com!lax!twbrown From: twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools Subject: Re: What is the best way to get HINSTANCE of a DLL? Message-ID: <690@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com> Date: 10 Nov 92 23:06:12 GMT References: <1992Nov9.070214.3613@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@lax.pe-nelson.com Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Distribution: usa Organization: PE-Nelson Lines: 21