Passing a pointer to a pointer array to unmanaged C++ code

[mjaaland]

Hi!

I've been working with DLLimports passing structs and various other parameters to unmanaged code. I had problems earlier sending pointer to structs to the unmanaged code, and this forum solved it for me (using the ref keyword etc).

I now encountered a function that takes a pointer to an array as a parameter, and this array consists of other pointers, to structs. Horrible isn't it?

I have no way of modifying the unmanaged code, I have to deal with it. Right now I have used a shortcut with nested fixed statements:

GK_a is a struct. cs_a is an array of such structs. I want pointerArray to contain pointers to the structs in cs_a.

fixed(GK_a* tempPointer = &(cs_a[0]))
{
pointerArray[0] = tempPointer; //one down

fixed (GK_a* tempPointer2 = &(cs_a[1]))
{
if (NUMBER > 1)
pointerArray[1] = tempPointer2; //two down
and so on.

I will then call my function

DLLHandler.myFunction(ref pointerArray);

and I have declared this function like this:

[DllImport("myDLL.dll", EntryPoint = "myFunction")]
public static extern byte myFunction(ref GK_a* pointerArray);

(myFunction actually wants GK_a ** pointer, but the ref should take care of it?)

I havent gotten far enough to test. But is there an easier way?

I would greatly appreciate any help!

Bendik Mjaaland