[Dev-C++] Question about handles and DLLs...

[<mr...@c2...>]

One question:

A DLL receives a HINSTANCE handle in it's DLLMain function that is 
invoked when the DLL is mapped into an application.

If I load a DLL with LoadLibrary, LoadLibrary returns a HINSTANCE 
handle to the DLL.

I was under the impression that this handle would be the same as the 
handle that the DLL itself receives in DLLMain, but it seems to be 
different.

Is this some MingW error, or is this correct behaviour?

Reason I ask is that if I try to set a hook with SetWindowsHookEx, 
and use the HINSTANCE that the DLL itself receives, the hook does not 
work. If I supply the HINSTANCE that LoadLibrary returned, then it 
works just fine.

In both cases SetWindowsHookEx returns a valid handle to the hook, 
but only in the latter case the hook is actually installed to the 
system...


-=D8yvind
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