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==== Getting the Instance Handle for OpenInsight??? (OpenInsight Specific) ====
=== At 26 MAY 1999 07:05:17AM Geoff Gullick wrote: ===
 
{{tag>"OpenInsight Specific"}}
 
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I am adding some functions to a DLL and need to pass in my apps instance handle as a HINSTANCE. Is there a way to do this??
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=== At 26 MAY 1999 04:10PM akaplan@sprezzatura.com - [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>I think it should Handle=Get_Property( Window, 'HANDLE')



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=== At 27 MAY 1999 05:05AM cpates@sprezzatura.com,[url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Hi Geoff,



You need to get the handle of a window in your app and then you need to get the app's instance handle which is different from a window handle).



To do this use Aaron's code to get the window handle then use the GetWindowWord API call with the GWW_HINSTANCE argument to get the HINSTANCE of the app that owns the window.



eg.



Equ GWW_HINSTANCE$ To -6



hWnd=Get_property( "SOMEWIN", "HANDLE" )

hInstance=GetWindowWord( hwnd, GWW_HINSTANCE$ )



You'll probably have to prototype GetWindowWord as



SHORT PASCAL GetWindowWord( SHORT, SHORT )



in DLL_USER in SYSPROCS.



One other thought - do you need the HINSTANCE of OpenInsight( ie PResentation server - which owns the windows you create ) or OpenEngine, which runs the scripts and programs that call your DLL's ? ) Hmmm....





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