[Ikvm-developers] Enumerations with the FlagsAttribute set

[Michael K. <mi...@sa...>]

I'm trying to call (from Java) one of the .NET
System.Globalization.CompareInfo.Compare() methods that takes an argument of
type CompareOptions. I can't see how to set up a CompareOptions instance to
supply. This is an enumeration type with the FlagsAttribute set, and it
seems from the examples that in C# it's done by creating an int with the
right bits set, and then casting it to a CompareOptions. In Java, of course,
no such cast is possible.

At present the only way I can see of doing it is to create a wrapper class
in C# that takes arguments of type int rather than CompareOptions. Is there
a better way?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/