DLL GetModuleHandle strange prob..

[bownet66@uswest.net]

Ok this sorta has to do with gameprogramming.. well in an oblique way (since
all regular programming usually goes into games..)
I'm using GetModuleHandle to open up a DLL...I cant use "LoadLibrary"
because I just want the address space of the process.
This works on some DLLs.. but I had just happened to pick "Shell32.dll" to
test my program on.
Well, it returns NULL..I tried user32.dll and it returns fine, I just want
to know why this is? Is it some type of process memory space protection or
what.
I'm just trying to go through all of the imported modules in the DLL and
record their import address table (IAT) pointers for HMODULE..
If anyone knows about any of this..please respond.
(Oh yeah I'm a complete idiot in win32 programming, but this DOES have to do
with gameprogramming since my original attempt at this has to do with
creating a game DLL and using the IAT pointers to change the address of some
of the process functions so that the game can be change... using hooks,
etc.. )


Jeremy Bowne
Freelance programmer
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