Hi to you all,

Could anyone tell me how to obtain the handle of the application
(Application.Handle) owning
a DLL inside of the DLL? That is, I'm writing a multi-purpose DLL
containing its own top-level windows which need to be owned by an
application in order to be minimized etc together with this app. Of
course I could write a proc inside the DLL assigning the application's
handle to the DLL handle:

<<inside DLL>>
Procedure SetHandle(H: WHND); Export;
Begin   Application.Handle:=H End;

...rest of DLL code
<<>>

Calling this from the application would solve the problem. For me this
doesn't work, though, I need to find out the Application.handle without
having the application pasing it to the DLL.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanx, Han

Hmmmmmm..........  Tricky, as it is possible that several applications can
all access a single DLL
at the same time.
It would be better for the DLL to obtain this information, and there are
several functions that will do it.
I can't remember the exact name (there are different version for Win NT and
Win 9*), but it is something like
GetModuleInfo32 which gets info on all loaded DLL's and app's that reference
them. Try looking up MODULE in the on-line help for a fuller explanation.

Hi,

Thanx! I'll try this.
PS: Different applics can access a DLL but will load it in their own
separate mem space (at least the data-portion)?

Han

Win32 provides a mechanism (see "DLLEntryPoint" in the Win32 help file)
where it will call a routine in the DLL each time a process or thread
attaches to the DLL.

Delphi surfaces that interface through the "DLLProc" procedure variable.

These provide the means to realize when a DLL is being attached or
detached, and by whom, without being told by the clients.