"Michael A. Covington" <look@www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address> wrote
in message news:ueiykIyBEHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I'm assembling text attribute bytes (upper and lower nybbles) and have the
> following line of code:
>
> ushort a = (ushort)((csbi.wAttributes & (ushort)0x0F) |
> (ushort)((ushort)value<<4));
>
>
>
> Here value is an enum of base type ushort, csbi.wAttributes is a
ushort...
> so why is everything coverting to int (not even uint) and having to be
> converted back?
>
>
>
> There has to be a better way to code this!
>
>
>
>
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>

<look@www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address> wrote:

> so why is everything coverting to int (not even uint) and having to be
> converted back?
>
>

"Brad Williams" <bradx.s.williams@intel.com> wrote in message
news:c2q37k$ogo$1@news01.intel.com...
> << cannot take ushort:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/csspec/html/vclrfcsharpspec_7_8.asp?frame=true
>
> & cannot take ushort:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csspec/html/vclrfcsharpspec_7_8.asp
>
> Looks like ushort will be implicitly converted to int before uint,
assuming
> the list order is significant on this page:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csspec/html/vclrfcsharpspec_6_1_2.asp
>
>
> "Michael A. Covington" <look@www.covingtoninnovations.com.for.address>
wrote
> in message news:ueiykIyBEHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I'm assembling text attribute bytes (upper and lower nybbles) and have
the
> > following line of code:
> >
> > ushort a = (ushort)((csbi.wAttributes & (ushort)0x0F) |
> > (ushort)((ushort)value<<4));
> >
> >
> >
> > Here value is an enum of base type ushort, csbi.wAttributes is a
> ushort...
> > so why is everything coverting to int (not even uint) and having to be
> > converted back?
> >
> >
> >
> > There has to be a better way to code this!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>