Hey all,
To anyone who is faily well versed in vb and has extensive experience with vb and the windows api.
Im currently working with another individual to work on a windows shell replacement. For those of you that dont know what that is i would reccomend checking out http://floach.pimpin.net, http://news.geoshell.com, and http://www.litestep.net.
Currently the shell is still in development. THE SHELL IS BEING WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN WIN32 API and NATIVE VB API. No controls, forms, or active x controls are being used!!!
We are looking for someone to head the development of the popup menu system (much like that of the start menu). This menu system is going to be skinning enabled. The method and manner in which the menu is drawn and used is completely up to the developer.
The shell core and all other functionality, minus the popup menu system, are going to be completely finished for the first release on January 1st of 2001. It would be preferable if you are considering joinging this effort, that you have the time nessesary to complete this on or before the release date for testiong (jan 1). Of course this is always flexible.
If you are interested in this, or have questions about this project, please feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] . For those of you that say it cant be done in vb, well youve just justified my reasons for
doing it. It can be done, and we are doing it! Right now its running at half the memory usage of explorer and the exe is only at 54kb! Neet eh?
Again anyone who might like to be a part of this ongoing project, please let me know via this post, or preferably by email at [email protected].
For those of you that would like to see a screen shot of development as it currently stands, please check out http://www.eggshell.f2s.com/newgui.jpg .
Thanks all,
Andy :: Cosmok
ps. Thats right, i used to develop for geoShell (www.geoshell.com, news.geoshell.com) Please only inquire if you are serious about this. Ive had too many 'Ill see what i can do's already. Thanks again.
