RE: DWORD help

[Stefan Dösinger]

> > I have written the following but when I have dwUserIndex as 0,1,2,3
>
> or
> > any number, doesn't really matter, it always returns
> > ERROR_BAD_ARGUMENTS.
>
> Not sure why it's not returning ERROR_DEVICE_NOT_CONNECTED for you.
> I'll just point out:

Probably the calling convention is wrong. Usually Windows API functions have
to be declared like this:

DWORD WINAPI XInputGetState(DWORD dwUserIndex, XINPUT_STATE* pState);

The difference is (among others) that the first parameter is passed in the
ECX register instead of the stack