// This would be the struct definition, at the start of the project. 
// It's defined directly in the project namespace, not inside a class:
 
public ref struct TheStruct              
    {
        int structval1;
        int structval2;
    };
 
// This would be a function inside a class (which resides in the same 
// namespace as the struct) to return the struct.
// Inside the function, another similarily declared struct is used as 
// source to convert it into TheStruct.
 
TheStruct^ ConvertStruct(SomeOtherStruct s)
{
     TheStruct tmp;
     tmp.structval1 = s.someval1 / 255;
     tmp.structval2 = s.someval2 / 255;
     return ^tmp;
}
 
// finally, the conversion is called in source as:
 
TheStruct MyWorkStruct = ConvertStruct(MyOtherStruct);