🚀 HMG Extended Edition – Build 26.05 Now Available!

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Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce the release of HMG Extended Edition – Build 26.05 (2026/05/25).

This build delivers a broad set of refinements across the framework, with a strong focus on code maintainability, internal consistency, improved control handling, updated libraries/toolchain components, and enhanced sample applications. While most changes are internal refactorings with full backward compatibility preserved, several areas also received safety, readability, and minor performance improvements.

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🔹 Key Highlights

🔹 Core Improvements

* Extensive refactoring and cleanup across multiple controls and core modules for:

  * improved readability
  * maintainability
  * consistency
  * safer WinAPI handling
  * cleaner Unicode/ANSI processing
  * reduced code duplication

Updated and improved modules include:

* Font management and enumeration
* Dialogs and common controls interfaces
* INI file handling
* BROWSE handling
* GRID handling
* EDITBOX handling
* CheckLabel handling
* LABEL handling
* RADIOGROUP handling
* BUTTONEX control
* IMAGE control
* MENU engine
* SHELLEXECUTE() / SHELLEXECUTEEX()
* TGif class
* MRU module
* TCDOMail class

Most updates preserve complete backward compatibility while modernizing the internal codebase and improving long-term maintainability.

🔹 Libraries & Toolchain Updates

* Updated HbSQLite3 library to use SQLite 3.53.1 (PRO version).
* Updated Harbour Compiler 3.2.0dev (SVN 2026-05-14 14:50) (PRO version).
* Updated SddSqlt3 library source code (PRO version).
* Updated unrar.dll to version 7.22.

🔹 Samples & Applications

Several demos and sample applications were improved with enhanced inline documentation, refactoring, and code cleanup, including:

* EditBox Overwrite
* Virtual Grid Usage
* Label Properties
* Labels as Buttons
* Message Test Function
* System Idle Time Monitoring
* UnRar sample

These updates aim to make the samples easier to study, maintain, and extend.

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📥 Downloads

STANDARD Build

Compatible with Borland C++ 5.8.2

https://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.05-setup.zip

⚠ This build is not recommended for production use.

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🔐 PROFESSIONAL Build

Production-ready, stable, and recommended for serious development and deployment.

Downloads:

https://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.05-pro.7z

https://hmgextended.org/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.05-pro.7z

The password for the PROFESSIONAL build is shared with project donors and supporters.

This release is strongly recommended as an upgrade for active HMG Extended Edition users.

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Our sincere thanks go to everyone contributing code, testing improvements, reporting issues, and supporting the project.

Your continued feedback and support help keep HMG Extended Edition evolving and improving.

Warm regards,
Grigory Filatov
on behalf of the MiniGUI Team