Need to add many items (more than 10k) in TComboBox (I know that TComboBox is not supposed to hold many items but its not up to me to change this) without adding duplicates. So I need to search the full list before adding. I want to avoid TComboBox.items.indexof as I need a binary search but the binary find is not available in TStrings.
So I created a temporary Tstringlist, set sorted to true and used find. But now assigning the temporary Tstringlist back to TComboBox.Items
(myCB.Items.AddStrings(myList))
is really slow as it copies the whole list. Is there any way to move the list instead of copying it? Or any other way to efficient populate my TComboBox?