EEShell 1.0 released

This might sound like a bit of a joke, but I've gone back to the original EEShell - the one I call semi-functional (for a reason) - and rewritten it from scratch (of course) in PowerBasic 8. I did it mostly to see how hard it is to program forms in PB (I don't think it's much harder than Visual Basic is), and also to correct the numerous screw-ups.

Anyway, to a large degree I've replicated EEShell 0.0.7, but I also made some changes. The shutdown and restart buttons work under NT systems. The useless "force" and "poweroff" buttons are gone, replaced by the new "Standby" button (which is unique amongst all version of EEShell - none other allows standby). I swapped the positions of the run button and the exit/shutdown column. The window is now movable and minimizable, and is much smaller than before.

Since I used PowerBasic instead of VB, the memory usage is much lower - v1.0 uses about half the memory that v0.0 uses (<1900KB for v1 vs >3600KB for v0). On the other hand, since there is some added functionality, the file size is larger (38KB for v1 vs 24KB for v0).

Also, PowerBasic doesn't require runtime libraries like VB does. Fewer distribution worries, yay!

Note that I'm still undecided as to the general direction of the entire EEShell project and still want users to participate in the poll on the EEShell homepage. Click the "home page" link above and tell me what you think.