Easy way to add stable sorting to TList and TStringList

Question

I use TList/TObjectList and TStringList (with associated objects) for a multitude of tasks, either as-is, or as basis for more complex structures. While the sort functionali

Answer 1

This question is rather old, but here goes my answer for future readers: I also needed this recently and adapted the implementation found in the book "The Tomes of Delphi Algorithms and Data Structures" by Julian Bucknall. Implementation for TList, TObjectList and descendant classes. It works with Delphi 2009 to XE7 and probably other versions as well: http://alexandrecmachado.blogspot.com.br/2015/02/merge-sort-for-delphi.html