Franz Müller wrote 10 lines
In the current implementation of TStringlist, there is a property
SortStyle, which is somewhat similar to the property Sorted. However,
it is different from sorted in that it allows 3 values: sslnone, which
corresponds to sorted=false, sslAuto, which corresponds to
sorted=true, and sslUser, which correspnds to ????
This third value introduces some inconsistency. If the user is
responsible for sorting, as is written in the documentation, this must
be meant to be done by caling customsort - otherwise it would make
absolutey no sense to leave sorting to the user.
Not correct, it is meant for the cases when the user knows the list is sorted.
And in addition the procedures used for comparing auto-sorted procedures are local to the Stringlist unit, so the application programmer would not even be able to use these methods for sorting himself.
No, because you can load data from an already sorted file. Then it makes no sense to sort again.
Michael.
Ok, then I understand the meaning of sslUser. In that case, however, the documentation is somewhat misleading or at least ambiguous. It should state clearly that lists in which a user defined customsort has been called have to keep SortStyle=sslNone and that sslUser is not meant for such custom sorted lists.
Franz