Faking HINSTANCE

Tim Akgayev · 2008-02-06T22:22:55

Hi, This is the problem: I have an interface for a class in one file and the class itself in another. I want to keep the interface file free from any includes such as windows.h or others, but I need to use HINSTANCE as one of the params of the function in that interface. Since no extra files are included, the compiler marks it as undefined. Is there any way I can emulate HINSTANCE? I looked up its definition: if STRICT is not defined its simply "typedef void* HINSTANCE" but if it is ( and this seems to be the case) then its "struct HINSTANCE__ { int unused; }; typedef HINSTANCE__ *HINSTANCE;" I tried in many ways to emulate the above struct but nothing seems to work. Anyone has any ideas? P.S If you're not clear as to what I mean by emulate, for example LRESULT can be simply declared as long, WRESULT as long* etc.

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Started by VanillaSnake21 February 06, 2008 08:20 PM

10 comments, last by smitty1276 16 years, 2 months ago

VanillaSnake21

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February 06, 2008 10:07 PM

Quote:Original post by smitty1276
Your implementation should not be OS independent. That's the whole point of an implementation. Look here:

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This is actually a much better approach :) , as a matter of fact I think this allows me to be more OS independent, anyways thanks, I'll use it.

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February 06, 2008 10:22 PM

Quote:Original post by VanillaSnake21
This is actually a much better approach :) , as a matter of fact I think this allows me to be more OS independent, anyways thanks, I'll use it.

Well, it allows your INTERFACE to be more OS independent, but at the implementation level you should be down and dirty with the OS.

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