Winmain with DDT

[Anand Kumar]

Dear Lance and Dave,

Is it correct to program this way using winmain
DefLng L, H
%TextBox = 101
Function Winmain (....) Export as Long

Dialog New 0, "Win Main", , , 100, 100, %WS_SYSMENU TO HDialog
Control Add TextBox, HDialog, %TextBox, "", 10, 10,
Dialog Show Modal HDialog, Call CallBackProc to LResult

End Function

CallBack Function CallBackProc()

End Function

or should I use only API calls in winmain. I am using API calls which require hInstance and PBMAIN is not able to get the hInstance.


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Anand Kumar

[Jim Huguley]

Anand...

You may use PBMAIN and retrieve the hInstance using

hInstance = GetWindowLong ( HDialog, %GWL_HINSTANCE )

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Jim..
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[Lance Edmonds]

PBMAIN functions in the same manner as WINMAIN() does.

PBMAIN is just a "shortened" format that does not accept parameters. In truth, the actual EXE code always contains a "winmain" but the compiler handles the details for us in the actual EXE code it generates.

Therefore, from a technical point of view, unless you specifically need the parameters passed to your app via WINMAIN, you can use PBMAIN instead, but either way produces the same result.

I hope I made this clearer rather than more convoluted

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Guest]

I looked in the win32api.inc and found Gethinst() and it seems to work for me in my pbmain.

ghInst = Gethinst()

I use it; for example, to set the icon for my main dialog:

dialog send hDlg,%WM_SETICON,%ICON_BIG,LoadIcon(ghInst, "PROGRAM")

...and it seems to do exactly what I want.
Give it a "whirl" and see what it does for ya'.

See ya',
Adam


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[K Peel]

Function ghInst() as Long
 Function = GetModuleHandle("")
end function

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Kev G Peel
KGP Software
Bridgwater, UK.
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[Guest]

.....Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!! Learn something new everyday.

Adam

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