P/Invoke trouble (ScrollDC)

[Marcos Cruz Arjona]

Hi,

In order to scroll the client area of a custom control, I call ScrollDC
unmanaged function using the P/Invoke service in the .NET Compact Framework.
I've declared it, as follows:

[DllImport("codedll.dll", EntryPoint="ScrollDC")]
public static extern bool ScrollDC(IntPtr hdc, int dx, int dy, ref RECT
lprcScroll, ref REC lprcClip, int hrgnUpdate, ref RECT lprcUpdate);

So far, it works fine. However, ¿how can I pass a null pointer on lprcScroll
& lprcClip arguments?. I have tried several ways, but I always got compiler
errors.

Best regards,

M a r c o s

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

IntPtr.Zero should work fine.

-Chris

 

[Marcos Cruz Arjona]

Chris,

I had already tried this, but compiler cannot convert IntPtr.Zero to ref
RECT.

IntPtr.Zero should work fine.

-Chris

Hi,

In order to scroll the client area of a custom control, I call ScrollDC
unmanaged function using the P/Invoke service in the .NET Compact Framework.
I've declared it, as follows:

[DllImport("codedll.dll", EntryPoint="ScrollDC")]
public static extern bool ScrollDC(IntPtr hdc, int dx, int dy, ref RECT
lprcScroll, ref REC lprcClip, int hrgnUpdate, ref RECT lprcUpdate);

So far, it works fine. However, ¿how can I pass a null pointer on lprcScroll
& lprcClip arguments?. I have tried several ways, but I always got compiler
errors.

Best regards,

M a r c o s

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

if you're marshalling a struct (dangerous in the CF in the first place) then
you should be able to use null.

-Chris

Chris,

I had already tried this, but compiler cannot convert IntPtr.Zero to ref
RECT.

IntPtr.Zero should work fine.

-Chris

Hi,

In order to scroll the client area of a custom control, I call ScrollDC
unmanaged function using the P/Invoke service in the .NET Compact Framework.
I've declared it, as follows:

[DllImport("codedll.dll", EntryPoint="ScrollDC")]
public static extern bool ScrollDC(IntPtr hdc, int dx, int dy, ref RECT
lprcScroll, ref REC lprcClip, int hrgnUpdate, ref RECT lprcUpdate);

So far, it works fine. However, ¿how can I pass a null pointer on lprcScroll
& lprcClip arguments?. I have tried several ways, but I always got compiler
errors.

Best regards,

M a r c o s

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

What you want to do is to define an overload like this:
[DllImport("codedll.dll", EntryPoint="ScrollDC")]
public static extern bool ScrollDC(IntPtr hdc, int dx, int dy, IntPtr
lprcScroll, IntPtr lprcClip, int hrgnUpdate, ref RECT lprcUpdate);
then call it with IntPtr.Zero in place of those 2 parameters. In fact even
int and 0 would do it, but IntPtr is cleaner