Short to 16bit 555 format

[Coder87C]

Hi,

I have a file which I read in shorts. Each short represents a color.

I need to make the short into a RGB color using 555 format.

F = Alpha
Red = E to A
Green = 9 to 5
Blue = 4 to 0.

So I made the function

public Color getColor(short value)
    {
        short R = (value & 0xF800) >> 10;
        short G = (value & 0x07C0) >> 5;
        short B = (value & 0x003E);
        return Color.FromArgb(R, G, B);
    }

The error I get is:

Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'short'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

On each of the conversions. I looked this up in a couple places and it said almost the same thing, can anyone help me?

Thankyou.

[quzah]

My guess is it wants you to cast your hex values to a short, but I don't C#.


Quzah.

[Coder87C]

What I did was changed it to:

int R = (value & 0xF800) >> 10;

so int R not short R.

Can this screw things up?

[quzah]

That depends if you really need a short or an int. In C you'd just do something like this, that is, if you really needed to:

short int R = (value & (short int)0xABC) >> 10;

I've never looked at C# so I don't know how they do casts.


Quzah.