Often times data is best represented as simple boolean (TRUE or FALSE) values. The packbooltags() function provides an easy method for converting a tag list to bit fields. /* These are the attributes that we understand, with the * corresponding flag value. */ struct TagItem activation_bools[] = { /* Attribute Flags */ {GA_ENDGADGET, ENDGADGET}, {GA_IMMEDIATE, GADGIMMEDIATE}, {GA_RELVERIFY, RELVERIFY}, {GA_FOLLOWMOUSE, FOLLOWMOUSE}, {GA_RIGHTBORDER, RIGHTBORDER}, {GA_LEFTBORDER, LEFTBORDER}, {GA_TOPBORDER, TOPBORDER}, {GA_BOTTOMBORDER, BOTTOMBORDER}, {GA_TOGGLESELECT, TOGGLESELECT}, /* Terminate the array */ {TAG_END} }; /* Set the activation field, based on the attributes passed */ g->Activation = PackBoolTags(g->Activation, tags, activation_bools);