B4J Question IIF error when converting string array to list

[Chris2]

Can someone please tell me why in the following the If...Else...EndIF works OK, but the Inline IIf fails or at least seems to produce an array rather than a list:

Private Sub Button1_Click
   
    Private b As Boolean
   
    'This works OK.
    If b Then
        Dim colours As List = Array As String(xui.Color_Black, xui.Color_Black)
    Else
        Dim colours As List = Array As String(xui.Color_Blue, xui.Color_Blue)
    End If
    Log(colours)    '(ArrayList) [-16776961, -16776961]
           
           
'    But here colours seems to end up as an array rather than a list, or sometimes I get
'    an exception: java.lang.ClassCastException:
'    class [Ljava.lang.String; cannot be cast to class java.util.List ([Ljava.lang.String; and java.util.List are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
    Dim colours As List = IIf(b, Array As String(xui.Color_Black, xui.Color_Black), Array As String(xui.Color_Blue, xui.Color_Blue))
    Log(colours)    '(String[]) [Ljava.lang.String;@3fb4917d
   
End Sub

Changing the string arrays to Int arrays still fails in a similar way.
Many thanks.

 

[Daestrum]

	Dim colours As List = IIf(b,make_colours(xui.Color_Black), make_colours(xui.Color_Blue))
	Log(colours)   

End Sub
Sub make_colours(i As Int) As List
	Return Array As String(i,i)
End Sub

 

[stevel05]

Something to do with the intermediate casting from IIf.

This works:

Dim CArr() As Object = IIf(b, Array(XUI.Color_Black, XUI.Color_Black), Array(XUI.Color_Blue, XUI.Color_Blue))
    Dim colours As List = CArr
    Log(colours)