With a standard enum, values are automatically assigned.
public enum MyEnum{Happy,Sa d,Angry,Grandpa };
....but what about a bitflag enum?
[Flags()]
public enum MyEnum:int{
FalseTeeth=0x00 000001
BrainCancer=0x0 0000002
CronesDisease=0 x00000004
AllDiseasesAndP roblems=0xfffff fff
}
In this example, is it necessary for me to manually assign the values to
'FalseTeeth', 'BrainCancer', and 'CronesDisease' or does the compiler do
this for me automatically? For small enums, I don't really mind the
inconvenience of manually typing the associated bitvalues. However, it's
more of a pain for larger enums -- especially when I need to insert an item
in the enum at some later time and all of the bitflag values must be
adjusted.
--
Sincerely,
David Sworder http://www.CodeFanatic.com 4  1514 
David Sworder wrote: With a standard enum, values are automatically assigned.
public enum MyEnum{Happy,Sa d,Angry,Grandpa };
...but what about a bitflag enum?
[Flags()]
public enum MyEnum:int{
FalseTeeth=0x00 000001
BrainCancer=0x0 0000002
CronesDisease=0 x00000004
AllDiseasesAndP roblems=0xfffff fff
}
In this example, is it necessary for me to manually assign the values to
'FalseTeeth', 'BrainCancer', and 'CronesDisease' or does the compiler do
this for me automatically? For small enums, I don't really mind the
inconvenience of manually typing the associated bitvalues. However, it's
more of a pain for larger enums -- especially when I need to insert an item
in the enum at some later time and all of the bitflag values must be
adjusted.
The bitflag attribute does not change the way values are assigned to the
various enum members. You'll need to explicitly set the values for your
bitmap enums.
--
mikeb
David Sworder wrote: With a standard enum, values are automatically assigned.
public enum MyEnum{Happy,Sa d,Angry,Grandpa };
...but what about a bitflag enum?
test it.
Answer: no, they are enumerated 0, 1, 2, 3 ... which isn't helpful. You
need to do the assignments manually.
[Flags()]
public enum MyEnum:int{
FalseTeeth=0x00 000001
BrainCancer=0x0 0000002
CronesDisease=0 x00000004
AllDiseasesAndP roblems=0xfffff fff
}
The leading '0's are not necessary. Leave them out. That would save you
some work at least.
--
Konrad - http://madrat.net/
> test it. Answer: no, they are enumerated 0, 1, 2, 3 ...
Yeah, I noticed that.... that's why I was hoping that I was missing
something. I thought maybe I was misusing the Flags() attribute.... ok,
well, thanks for the clarification.
Hi David,
"David Sworder" <ds******@cts.c om> wrote in message
news:OR******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl... With a standard enum, values are automatically assigned.
public enum MyEnum{Happy,Sa d,Angry,Grandpa };
...but what about a bitflag enum?
[Flags()]
public enum MyEnum:int{
FalseTeeth=0x00 000001
BrainCancer=0x0 0000002
CronesDisease=0 x00000004
AllDiseasesAndP roblems=0xfffff fff
}
In this example, is it necessary for me to manually assign the values
to 'FalseTeeth', 'BrainCancer', and 'CronesDisease' or does the compiler do
this for me automatically? For small enums, I don't really mind the
inconvenience of manually typing the associated bitvalues. However, it's
more of a pain for larger enums -- especially when I need to insert an
item in the enum at some later time and all of the bitflag values must be
adjusted.
For larger enums, you *might* find something like this easier:
[Flags()]
public enum MyEnum
{
FalseTeeth = 1,
BrainCancer = FalseTeeth << 1,
CronesDisease = BrainCancer << 1,
AllDiseasesAndP roblems = FalseTeeth|Brai nCancer|CronesD isease
}
Regards,
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