+// a template to make initializing Windows styructs less painful: it zeroes all
+// the struct fields and also sets cbSize member to the correct value (and so
+// can be only used with structures which have this member...)
+template <class T>
+struct WinStruct : public T
+{
+ WinStruct()
+ {
+ ::ZeroMemory(this, sizeof(T));
+
+ // explicit qualification is required here for this to be valid C++
+ this->cbSize = sizeof(T);
+ }
+};
+
+