We are basically creating a control panel applet. We need to toggle "Enhance pointer precision" in Mouse Properties.
To do so we need to call SystemParametersInfo
with SPI_GETMOUSE
. It has an array of 3 elements as its third parameter. I'm new to PInvoke and I've tried many signatures but so far no luck. Here is what I've tried for the signature:
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
static extern bool SystemParametersInfo(uint uiAction, uint uiParam, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)] ref long[] vparam, SPIF fWinIni);
static extern bool SystemParametersInfo(uint uiAction, uint uiParam, ref long[] vparam, SPIF fWinIni);
None of the above worked for me and here's the exception I'm getting:
System.AccessViolationException
: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
While searching I came up with this which is in VB.
Solution: Thanks to GWLlosa's answer and this one I came up with the solution:
[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SystemParametersInfo", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern bool SystemParametersInfoGet(uint action, uint param, IntPtr vparam, SPIF fWinIni);
public const UInt32 SPI_GETMOUSE = 0x0003;
[DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint = "SystemParametersInfo", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern bool SystemParametersInfoSet(uint action, uint param, IntPtr vparam, SPIF fWinIni);
public const UInt32 SPI_SETMOUSE = 0x0004;
public static bool ToggleEnhancePointerPrecision(bool b)
{
int[] mouseParams = new int[3];
// Get the current values.
SystemParametersInfoGet(SPI_GETMOUSE, 0, GCHandle.Alloc(mouseParams, GCHandleType.Pinned).AddrOfPinnedObject(), 0);
// Modify the acceleration value as directed.
mouseParams[2] = b ? 1 : 0;
// Update the system setting.
return SystemParametersInfoSet(SPI_SETMOUSE, 0, GCHandle.Alloc(mouseParams, GCHandleType.Pinned).AddrOfPinnedObject(), SPIF.SPIF_SENDCHANGE);
}
Also this documentation proved to be helpful.
Have you tried:
Shamelessly lifted from:
http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32/SystemParametersInfo.html