Using SystemParametersInfo from C# (SPI_GETSCREENREADER SPI_SETSCREENREADER)

Question

Am I doing this correctly?

[DllImport("user32", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
internal static extern long SystemParametersInfo(long uAction, int lpvParam, ref bool uParam, int fuWinIni);

...

public static bool IsScreenReaderRunning()
{
    long SPI_GETSCREENREADER = 70L;
    bool bScreenReader = false;
    long retVal;

    retVal = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETSCREENREADER, 0, ref bScreenReader, 0);

    //uint iParam = 0;
    //uint iUpdate = 0;
    //bool result = false;
    //bool bReturn = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETSCREENREADER, iParam, &bScreenReader, iUpdate);
    return bScreenReader;
}

public static void ScreenReaderOn()
{
    long SPI_GETSCREENREADER = 71L;
    bool bScreenReader = true;
    long retVal;

    retVal = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETSCREENREADER, 0, ref bScreenReader, 0);
}

public static void ScreenReaderOff()
{
    long SPI_GETSCREENREADER = 71L;
    bool bScreenReader = false;
    long retVal;

    retVal = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETSCREENREADER, 0, ref bScreenReader, 0);
}

Answer 1

The pinvoke declaration is completely wrong, it was copied from VB6 code. The return type and arguments are not long (the VB6 int32 type), they are int. Pinvoke.net is a decent site to get good declarations.

[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool SystemParametersInfo(int uiAction, int uiParam, IntPtr pvParam, int fWinIni);

Don't forget to throw Win32Exception when you get a false return so failure isn't silent.

Answer 2

Based on this article, the last parameter to SystemParametersInfo should be:

int SPIF_SENDCHANGE = 0x02;

When changing the value.