🚀 MiniGUI Extended Edition – Build 26.07 Update 2 Now Available!
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Grigory Filatov
Jul 29, 2026, 1:59:24 AMJul 29
to Harbour Minigui
Dear MiniGUI Community,
We're pleased to announce the release of MiniGUI Extended Edition – Build 26.07 Update 2 (2026/07/29).
This maintenance update delivers several reliability improvements, useful API enhancements, updates to integrated components, and expanded documentation. It also introduces a brand-new practical development guide designed to help both newcomers and experienced Harbour developers build modern MiniGUI applications.
🔹 Highlights
* ButtonEx Control
* Fixed a very old typo affecting restoration of the original text color during ButtonEx processing.
* Image Control
* Added runtime support for retrieving the STRETCH property.
You can now query the property using either syntax:
* Function style:
GetProperty( Form, Image, "Stretch" )
* Pseudo-OOP style:
Form.Image.Stretch
* TAB Control
* Added additional validation to improve robustness of the owner-draw color TAB implementation.
* Updated TAB sample application accordingly.
* TSBrowse Integration
* Updated the adapted FiveWin TSBrowse 9.0 implementation.
* Corrected the _TBrowse_bAdjColumns block handling inside the _TBrowse() function.
* New Documentation (PRO Version)
* Added the 'Modern Harbour MiniGUI Development Guide', a comprehensive practical handbook covering MiniGUI development.
The guide includes 11 complete chapters:
* Introduction
* Installing the Development Environment
* Recommended Project Structure
* MiniGUI Fundamentals
* Modern Best Practices
* 20 Complete Working MiniGUI Examples
* Refactoring Legacy MiniGUI Code
* Coding Standards
* 25 Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
* MiniGUI Development Checklist
* Appendix with frequently used commands, controls, events, and Harbour functions
* Low Level DBU Utility (PRO Version)
* Improved documentation throughout the project.
* Added extensive comments explaining the DBF parsing internals.
* Refactored HL_DBInfoLL() for greater readability while preserving existing functionality.
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📥 Downloads
STANDARD Build
Compatible with Borland C++ 5.8.2
https://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.07.2-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-26.07.2-pro.7z
https://hmgextended.org/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.07.2-pro.7z
The password for the PROFESSIONAL build is shared with MiniGUI donors and supporters.
This update has been thoroughly tested and is recommended for all users of Build 26.07.
---
Our sincere thanks go to everyone who reports issues, contributes improvements, tests new releases, and supports the MiniGUI project.
Special thanks to Grzegorz Wojnarowski for suggesting improvements to the owner-draw TAB control, and to Sergej Kiselev for contributing the TSBrowse update.
Warm regards,
Grigory Filatov
on behalf of the MiniGUI Team
We're pleased to announce the release of MiniGUI Extended Edition – Build 26.07 Update 2 (2026/07/29).
This maintenance update delivers several reliability improvements, useful API enhancements, updates to integrated components, and expanded documentation. It also introduces a brand-new practical development guide designed to help both newcomers and experienced Harbour developers build modern MiniGUI applications.
🔹 Highlights
* ButtonEx Control
* Fixed a very old typo affecting restoration of the original text color during ButtonEx processing.
* Image Control
* Added runtime support for retrieving the STRETCH property.
You can now query the property using either syntax:
* Function style:
GetProperty( Form, Image, "Stretch" )
* Pseudo-OOP style:
Form.Image.Stretch
* TAB Control
* Added additional validation to improve robustness of the owner-draw color TAB implementation.
* Updated TAB sample application accordingly.
* TSBrowse Integration
* Updated the adapted FiveWin TSBrowse 9.0 implementation.
* Corrected the _TBrowse_bAdjColumns block handling inside the _TBrowse() function.
* New Documentation (PRO Version)
* Added the 'Modern Harbour MiniGUI Development Guide', a comprehensive practical handbook covering MiniGUI development.
The guide includes 11 complete chapters:
* Introduction
* Installing the Development Environment
* Recommended Project Structure
* MiniGUI Fundamentals
* Modern Best Practices
* 20 Complete Working MiniGUI Examples
* Refactoring Legacy MiniGUI Code
* Coding Standards
* 25 Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
* MiniGUI Development Checklist
* Appendix with frequently used commands, controls, events, and Harbour functions
* Low Level DBU Utility (PRO Version)
* Improved documentation throughout the project.
* Added extensive comments explaining the DBF parsing internals.
* Refactored HL_DBInfoLL() for greater readability while preserving existing functionality.
---
📥 Downloads
STANDARD Build
Compatible with Borland C++ 5.8.2
https://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.07.2-setup.zip
⚠ This build is NOT recommended for production use.
---
🔐 PROFESSIONAL Build
Production-ready, stable, and recommended for serious development and deployment.
Downloads:
https://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.07.2-pro.7z
https://hmgextended.org/files/CONTRIB/hmg-26.07.2-pro.7z
The password for the PROFESSIONAL build is shared with MiniGUI donors and supporters.
This update has been thoroughly tested and is recommended for all users of Build 26.07.
---
Our sincere thanks go to everyone who reports issues, contributes improvements, tests new releases, and supports the MiniGUI project.
Special thanks to Grzegorz Wojnarowski for suggesting improvements to the owner-draw TAB control, and to Sergej Kiselev for contributing the TSBrowse update.
Warm regards,
Grigory Filatov
on behalf of the MiniGUI Team
Grigory Filatov
Jul 29, 2026, 12:35:32 PMJul 29
to Harbour Minigui
Hi everyone,
I wanted to show a changing STRECH property of image at runtime with the following example.
/*
* HMGEE-Sample-Library
* Purpose: Demonstrates displaying and manipulating Image controls.
*/
#include "minigui.ch"
FUNCTION Main()
LOCAL cImage := "logo.png"
DEFINE WINDOW Win_Images ;
AT 0, 0 ;
WIDTH 500 ;
HEIGHT 450 ;
TITLE "HMGEE - Image Control Example" ;
MAIN ;
NOSIZE
@ 20, 100 IMAGE imgDisplay ;
PICTURE cImage ;
WIDTH 300 ;
HEIGHT 200 ;
STRETCH
@ 240, 50 LABEL lblInfo ;
VALUE "Supported formats: BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG" ;
WIDTH 400 ;
CENTERALIGN
@ 280, 150 BUTTON btnChange ;
CAPTION "Toggle Stretch" ;
ACTION ToggleStretch( cImage ) ;
WIDTH 200 ;
HEIGHT 30
@ 320, 150 BUTTON btnClose ;
CAPTION "Exit" ;
ACTION Win_Images.Release ;
WIDTH 200 ;
HEIGHT 30
END WINDOW
CENTER WINDOW Win_Images
ACTIVATE WINDOW Win_Images
RETURN NIL
/*
* Toggles the stretch property of the image control
*/
STATIC FUNCTION ToggleStretch( cImage )
LOCAL lCurrent := Win_Images.imgDisplay.Stretch
Win_Images.imgDisplay.Stretch := .NOT. lCurrent
Win_Images.imgDisplay.Picture := cImage
RETURN NIL
* HMGEE-Sample-Library
* Purpose: Demonstrates displaying and manipulating Image controls.
*/
#include "minigui.ch"
FUNCTION Main()
LOCAL cImage := "logo.png"
DEFINE WINDOW Win_Images ;
AT 0, 0 ;
WIDTH 500 ;
HEIGHT 450 ;
TITLE "HMGEE - Image Control Example" ;
MAIN ;
NOSIZE
@ 20, 100 IMAGE imgDisplay ;
PICTURE cImage ;
WIDTH 300 ;
HEIGHT 200 ;
STRETCH
@ 240, 50 LABEL lblInfo ;
VALUE "Supported formats: BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG" ;
WIDTH 400 ;
CENTERALIGN
@ 280, 150 BUTTON btnChange ;
CAPTION "Toggle Stretch" ;
ACTION ToggleStretch( cImage ) ;
WIDTH 200 ;
HEIGHT 30
@ 320, 150 BUTTON btnClose ;
CAPTION "Exit" ;
ACTION Win_Images.Release ;
WIDTH 200 ;
HEIGHT 30
END WINDOW
CENTER WINDOW Win_Images
ACTIVATE WINDOW Win_Images
RETURN NIL
/*
* Toggles the stretch property of the image control
*/
STATIC FUNCTION ToggleStretch( cImage )
LOCAL lCurrent := Win_Images.imgDisplay.Stretch
Win_Images.imgDisplay.Stretch := .NOT. lCurrent
Win_Images.imgDisplay.Picture := cImage
RETURN NIL
You can see the result in the pictures below.
Hope this is helpful.
Regards,
Grigory
среда, 29 июля 2026 г. в 07:59:24 UTC+2, Grigory Filatov:
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