EventLog plug-in

Author: sgiusto@mmpoint.it (talk, contrib)

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Description

Version: 5th March 2007.
Supported on: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

The EventLog plugin for NSIS provides a function to write Events to the windows Event Log.

FUNCTIONS

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EventLog::WriteEventLog <server> <log> <type> <category> <message> <text>

Writes an event to the EventLog Returns 1 on failure, 0 on success

<server>

Network name of PC to write events to

Leave blank to write to local PC

<log>

Event log to write

Standard windows Event Logs are "System" and "Application"

but other can be defined by user. If specific event log

is not found "Application" will be used

<type>

Type of message to write

• "0" - Information
• "1" - Error
• "2" - Warning

<category>

Event category. Can be any value and is specific to the event log currently written.

• "0" - None
• "1" - Devices
• "2" - Disk
• "3" - Printers
• "4" - Services
• "5" - Shell
• "6" - System
• "7" - Network

<message>

ID of the message to write. This id is specific to the event log currently written.

<text>

Message text to write to event log (up to 1024 bytes)

Usage Example

#Write an informational message in a Custom Event Log
EventLog::WriteEventLog '' 'EventLogTest' '0' '0' '1' 'Info'
pop $0
#Handle result

Credits

Written by Stefano Giusto [sgiusto@mmpoint.it]

Modified : add category's description by Ricardo Cardoso