Hey all!  As those of you subscribed to the commit list know, I've been 
making some large changes to the Win32 port of AbiCollab in an attempt 
to get it to have a GUI.  I am very close now, and could use some 
pointers (no pun intended) with regard to a few specific questions.
I am calling the Win32 function DialogBoxParam() in order to create a 
dialog.  One of the parameters is an HINSTANCE of the image (exe/dll) 
that contains the resource.  Setting this up in the most obvious manner 
gets the HINSTANCE from XAP_App, which seems incorrect: that is the 
handle to the AbiWord.exe image, not the AbiCollab.dll image where the 
dialog actually is stored.  The error I am getting (1814) when running 
the dialog seems to confirm this suspicion.
Browsing around Aiksaurus and Google Code Search of Abi, it seems as 
though ABI_PLUGIN_DECLARE gets expanded on Windows to create a DllMain 
function [1], which gets an HMODULE from Windows and which can be used 
interchangably with HINSTANCEs.  The commit log [2] seems to confirm my 
thought that I need to get to the s_hModule in the plugin and use that 
when creating the dialog.
I have added code to the AbiCollab plugin to store this value.  In the 
best way that seems to be possible, it is being stored in the Session 
Manager, with the same methods used in the XAP_App. So, I think I have 
that part right.
Here's my question.  The code in AbiCollab_Plugin.cpp is telling me that 
the HMODULE it's getting (s_hModule) is 0, and this 0 is getting 
successfully passed along to the dialog code, where it does nothing to 
help display a dialog.  Is there something I'm missing in 
AbiCollab_Plugin to extract the correct value?  Could someone with more 
experience review my latest commit (mainly the AbiCollab_Plugin part and 
the ap_Win32Dialog_CollaborationAccounts part) and see if I've made any 
glaring errors and/or oversights?
Thanks to sum1 for helping me debug this code tonight and serving as a 
highly accurate neural grep :)
Ryan
[1] 
http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=show:LrJWkZWx3uk:zvP-LlwbTE4:QKYDkVjdkNk2
[2] http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Feb/0362.html 
(from Dom)
-- Ryan Pavlik AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/ "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." -- Helen Keller "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers." -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu GuideReceived on Tue Jul 17 06:54:20 2007
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