What has happened to ComboBox.Sorted := True; in D

Question

Having recently received a 'Tumbleweed' badge for my last question, I am not sure whether I should be asking any more questions, but here goes.

I am populating a TComboBox with items from a sqlite table and this works fine. In my previous version of Delphi I was able to use ComboBox1.Sorted := True; to sort the items, but this seems to have disappeared in Delphi 10.2. I can sort the items in the table by applying a query and then populate the TComboBox from the sorted table. However, for curiosities sake I would like to find out how one now sorts items in a TComboBox. I have found some references to TComboBox(Sort:Compare) but have not succeeded in getting this to work to as of yet.

Can somebody please shed some light on this - many thanks

Answer 1

In Firemonkey you can populate a TComboBox instance either simply with the Items property of type TStrings or you add TListBoxItem instances with the form designer. But internally always TListBoxItem for the elements is used.

To use the TComboBox.Sort you need to provide an anonymous compare-function.

This is a simple example usage of TComboBox.Sort

cbxItems.Sort(
  function (pLeft, pRight: TFMXObject): Integer
  var
    lLeft, lRight: TListBoxItem;
  begin
    lLeft := TListBoxItem(pLeft);
    lRight := TListBoxItem(pRight);
    Result := String.Compare(lLeft.Text, lRight.Text);
  end
);