EventLog plug-in: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:23, 15 December 2009

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

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

<category>

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

<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)

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

Written by Stefano Giusto [sgiusto@mmpoint.it]

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 ;<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 ==