// 8 february 2014 package main import ( "fmt" // "syscall" "unsafe" ) var ( hInstance HANDLE nCmdShow int // TODO font ) // TODO is this trick documented in MSDN? func getWinMainhInstance() (err error) { r1, _, err := kernel32.NewProc("GetModuleHandleW").Call(uintptr(NULL)) if r1 == 0 { // failure return err } hInstance = HANDLE(r1) return nil } // TODO this is what MinGW-w64's crt (svn revision xxx) does; is it best? is any of this documented anywhere on MSDN? // TODO I highly doubt Windows API functions ever not fail, so figure out what to do should an error actually occur func getWinMainnCmdShow() (nCmdShow int, err error) { var info struct { cb uint32 lpReserved *uint16 lpDesktop *uint16 lpTitle *uint16 dwX uint32 dwY uint32 dwXSize uint32 dwYSzie uint32 dwXCountChars uint32 dwYCountChars uint32 dwFillAttribute uint32 dwFlags uint32 wShowWindow uint16 cbReserved2 uint16 lpReserved2 *byte hStdInput HANDLE hStdOutput HANDLE hStdError HANDLE } const _STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW = 0x00000001 // does not fail according to MSDN kernel32.NewProc("GetStartupInfoW").Call(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&info))) if info.dwFlags & _STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW != 0 { nCmdShow = int(info.wShowWindow) return nil } nCmdShow = _SW_SHOWDEFAULT return nil } func doWindowsInit() (err error) { err = getWinMainhInstance() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error getting WinMain hInstance: %v", err) } err = getWinMainnCmdShow() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error getting WinMain nCmdShow: %v", err) } err = registerStdWndClass() if err != nil { reteurn fmt.Errorf("error registering standard window class: %v", err) } // TODO others return nil // all ready to go }