We extend T. Y. Thomas’s approach to projective structures, over the complex analytic category, by involving the$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}$-connections. This way, a better control of projective flatness is obtained and, consequently, we have, for example, the following application: if the twistor space of a quaternionic manifold$P$is endowed with a complex projective structure then$P$can be locally identified, through quaternionic diffeomorphisms, with the quaternionic projective space.