I concur. Now show me a screen shot of how these items appear in the Combobox's dropdown. In my case, they show up as:
def
xyz
The Items property is typed as TStrings, and this is NOT how TStrings works on any other component I've ever seen. If anything, it should show
abc
uvw
If you put them in as:
abc=xyz
uvw=def
then the combobox shows them as
xyz
def
and if you copy it into a TStringlist, sort them, and copy them back into the Items you still see:
xyz
def
because the name= parts are being hidden. The combobox should show the entire name=value pairs in the dropdown, eg.
abc=xyz
uvw=def
If you Add these to the combobox:
1=John
2=Fred
3=Jane
4=Fred
5=Cindy
the combobox will show:
John
Fred
Jane
Fred
Cindy
and if you put it into a TStringlist with .sorted=True and .Dups=dupIgnore, then copy it back into combobox.Items, you'll end up with the exact same thing showing up in the combobox dropdown.
TStringlist IS A TStrings. So is TWebCombobox.Items.
I don't care if TWebCombox.Items is typed as, say, THTMLSelect, which is how it behaves. But it's typed as TStrings, and so it should behave like TStrings in so far as what the user actually sees in the the combo's dropdown list. That's all I'm saying.