WTL way of forcing resources to load from a dll in a non mfc app? (we are using WTL/ATL, not straight win32)

Question

I posted this question previously and now have the localized strings loaded (the ones we get with LoadString()) but I also need to load all the other resources from the satellite DLL.

MFC has the AfxSetResourceHandle () call, but I need something equivalent for a non-mfc app? I suspect I have to set that in the initialization code somewhere so all my resources are loaded from another DLL. How do I do that in a WTL (windows template library) context?

EDIT:

This summarizes our problem.

We are not using straight win32, but ATL and WTL for windows stuff. So we can't rely on the MFC stuff and we don't have low level control of the loading of menus and dialog resources.

EDIT: Hmmm... This seems to have an answer, but I was hoping for something better than that. For example - a SetResourceInstance() method analog to GetResourceInstance() in a CAppModule object.

Answer 1

The resource functions (FindResource, LoadResource) take a handle to a module as one of the parameters.

Use GetModuleHandleEx to get the module handle for the DLL.

Edit: Additional info for ATL/WTL.

WTL uses ATL::_AtlBaseModule.GetResourceInstance() for the module handle in its Win32 calls. There's a SetResourceInstance function that you can call to change the module that's used. Something like this should work at the beginning of your program:

HMODULE hmod;
::GetModuleHandleEx(GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_FROM_ADDRESS | GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_PIN, myDllFuncPtr, &hmod);
ATL::_AtlBaseModule.SetResourceInstance(hmod);