Getting the instance handler from a console app
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Hi, this might be a silly question, but I have a console C++ application with lots of console I/O, but I also need to create windows but I have to "fill in" the instance handler of the application.
Is there a way to retrieve this other than using WinMain as an entry point to the application? Thank you.
Quote:Original post by pasman
Hi, this might be a silly question, but I have a console C++ application with lots of console I/O, but I also need to create windows but I have to "fill in" the instance handler of the application.
Is there a way to retrieve this other than using WinMain as an entry point to the application? Thank you.
I think you can do:
HINSTANCE hinstance = GetModuleHandle(0);
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Thanks, but reading through msdn I understand that GetModuleHandle works for dll and if I pass 0 as parameter...
"If this parameter is NULL, GetModuleHandle returns a handle to the file used to create the calling process (.exe file)."
"If this parameter is NULL, GetModuleHandle returns a handle to the file used to create the calling process (.exe file)."
That's exactly what you want. The handle of the calling process, which is your console application.
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