Combining Enum Value using Bitmask

Question

I understand it\'s possible to use bitmasks in enum values, but I don\'t know how to create it.

I have a simple enum :

enum State
{
    minimizing = 0,
          


        

Answer 1

You can get this effect by specifying all fields in the enum and increased in powers of two to get the bitmask effect. For example, in your case:

enum State
{
    minimizing = 1,
    maximizing = 2,

    minimized = 4,
    maximized = 8
};

So you can then have your combinations of (State.maximized | State.minimizing). However this won't apply the restriction of only being State.maximized or State.minimized. If you want to do that you could convert them to a single bit, but I imagine in this example you would want to be able to have a case where it is neither maximized nor minimized.