hinstance

Determine the current HINSTANCE?

The HINSTANCE of a win32 application is passed to WinMain, but is there any other way of determining the current HINSTANCE (in case you couldn't tell, I'm very new to win32 programming!)? I need to create a window inside of a library and (since the library is cross platform), id prefer not to have to pass it in. ...

Forward declare HINSTANCE and friends

Is there a way to forward-declare the HINSTANCE type from the WinAPI without including the full (and big) windows.h header? For example, if I have a class RenderWindow which owns an HINSTANCE mInstance, i will have to include windows.h in RenderWindow.h. So everything that needs RenderWindow also has to include windows.h. I tried inclu...