Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-04-04 Thread Tony Zhang
OK, I was pretty busy the whole week last week, and didn't get any chance to look into anything. But I cannot agree on this: But all that aside, all changes that winecfg is doing are registry only > changes. IMHO Wine doesn't need yet another program to writes something into > registry. There are

Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-25 Thread Tony Zhang
> > When you add a new cpl, the wine build system does this for you. > > So my question is: can I just build one cpl? Or do I need to re-build the entire wine every time I want to test a particular cpl? If I can just build one cpl, how should I build (compile) it and let the existing wine recogniz

Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-24 Thread Tony Zhang
Dear Owen, > Actually creating a new control panel applet is a fairly straightforward > task. You can look at the existing control panels (appwiz.cpl, inetcpl.cpl) > to get an idea of what's involved > > After all the searches, I still do not have an overall idea of how to create an control panel

Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-24 Thread Tony Zhang
Dear Owen, > Actually creating a new control panel applet is a fairly straightforward > task. You can look at the existing control panels (appwiz.cpl, inetcpl.cpl) > to get an idea of what's involved > > I have looked at the two existing applets, but got a little confused by the variable names an

Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-23 Thread Tony Zhang
Now I see what you meant. That really is a nice feature to do something like "winecfg vd=1024x768". I'll see if I can understand how winetricks accomplish that. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: > Winetricks is a simple script that adds a few mssing things to wine, e.g. > it's h

Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-23 Thread Tony Zhang
Dear Dan, I agree that it would be nice to have a command-line interface for wine settings cause I have run into situations that I have to configure wine before going into X. So is it possible to first group/rearrange winecfg functions into certain libraries and then let the GUI (control panel) an

Re: [GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-23 Thread Tony Zhang
Dear Owen, Thank you for pointing me to those information. I'll take a look at those and try to figure out the process of making control panel applets. Unfortunately, I have no background in Windows programming, but I do want to get some through this project. -- Tony (Chi Zhang) On Wed, Mar 23

[GSoC] Merge winecfg and Control Panel

2011-03-22 Thread Tony Zhang
Hi everyone, I am a senior student double majoring in Computer Science and Math at Northern Illinois University (currently applying the CS Master Program at NIU) and I would like to participate in merging winecfg and control panel through the Google Summer of Code program. I have used wine since