win32evtlogutil: How does it works ?

[Dag Sunde]

Ah!

I was out of line here... (Never used the python module)
I just remembered doing it in VB once, and had that
problem...

Dag.

"Mark Hammond" <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote in message
news:3A2E2CD7.2090602 at ActiveState.com...
> Dag Sunde wrote:
>
> > The dll-part of the EventLog _is_ a little bit strange... :-)
> >
> > You see... The number you give when logging an event is supposed
> > to reference an id of a string-recource in the dll you registered
> >
> > So you have to create a resource-file with all the strings(messages)
> > you need, include it into a dll, and then reference those strings
> > by their id from the outside. This is done for nationalization-
> > purposes, I think...
>
> Yes - but win32evtlog.pyd _should_ be such a DLL.  It should magically
> register itself as a valid source of such messages.
>
> All of the messages it comtains are generic - eg, often simply of the
> form "%1" - meaning that they are pretty pointless from an
> internationalization point-of-view - but they _should_ still work (and
> have been known to) for the simple use they were intended.
>
> Mark.
>