It was not acceptable to call the class method from the static initializer

[wxWidgets.git] / include / wx / msw / private.h

diff --git a/include/wx/msw/private.h b/include/wx/msw/private.h
index d1f5d61b8c36ffd35ff67347bd8a3e05b20c4974..3cda5809f9d459a5f88bf5c9bc5fee4f2bf16024 100644 (file)
--- a/include/wx/msw/private.h
+++ b/include/wx/msw/private.h
@@ -286,12 +286,18 @@ HCURSOR wxBitmapToHCURSOR(const wxBitmap& bmp, int hotSpotX, int hotSpotY);
 // get the current state of SHIFT/CTRL keys
 inline bool wxIsShiftDown()
 {
-    return (::GetKeyState(VK_SHIFT) & 0x100) != 0;
+//    return (::GetKeyState(VK_SHIFT) & 0x100) != 0;
+    // Returns different negative values on WinME and WinNT,
+    // so simply test for negative value.
+    return ::GetKeyState(VK_SHIFT) < 0;
 }
 
 inline bool wxIsCtrlDown()
 {
-    return (::GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) & 0x100) != 0;
+//    return (::GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) & 0x100) != 0;
+    // Returns different negative values on WinME and WinNT,
+    // so simply test for negative value.
+    return ::GetKeyState(VK_CONTROL) < 0;
 }
 
 // wrapper around GetWindowRect() and GetClientRect() APIs doing error checking
@@ -330,6 +336,20 @@ inline RECT wxGetClientRect(HWND hwnd)
 // small helper classes
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+// 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));
+        cbSize = sizeof(T);
+    }
+};
+
+
 // create an instance of this class and use it as the HDC for screen, will
 // automatically release the DC going out of scope
 class ScreenHDC
@@ -466,9 +486,7 @@ private:
 // global data
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-WXDLLEXPORT_DATA(extern wxChar*) wxBuffer;
-
-WXDLLEXPORT_DATA(extern HINSTANCE) wxhInstance;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(extern HINSTANCE) wxhInstance;
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // global functions