Dear Tony Welcome to Wine.
> > After all the searches, I still do not have an overall idea of how to > create an control panel applet. From my current understanding, if I put the > cpl (dll) file in "~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/", wine control will > recognize it automatically, right? When you add a new cpl, the wine build system does this for you. > If so, is there any instructions on how to build a simple applet under wine > (even one that does nothing could work for me). I'd really like to try > create and build some test applet in order to understand it better. As always: Read the source. What you try to do (test applet) is how i started with inetcpl.cpl a while ago. git has a web interface with a history and the first commit for inetcpl.cpl is a minimalistic control applet. ( http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/history/HEAD:/dlls/inetcpl.cpl ) -- by by ... Detlef