[Lazarus] Lazarus support for Sorting is completely inadequate.

[Bart]

On 12/1/12, Avishai <avishai.gore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lazarus support for Sorting is completely inadequate. ....

At the risk of repeating myself or someone else:

Every component that has a (string-based) sorting routine might also
have a CustomSort like:

TBasicComponent.CustomSort(const CompareFunc: TCompareFunc);
where
type
  TCompareFunc = function(Item1, Item2: Pointer): Integer;

Or perhaps a property of type TCompareFunc that controls the default
sort routine?

The challenge (for Avishai's point of view) would then be to supply
appropriate compare functions for different languages and situations.
The compare function also solves the "do i want case-sensitivity" issue.

Just my 2 cents...

Bart