[python-win32] Issue with win32evtlog.ReportEvent

[Chris Frantz]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah - this is a bug in the general DWORD handling in SWIG generated files.
>  I'm not sure how to tell SWIG to use a different format char, but I have
> managed to work around it in other ways which is good for the general case.
>
> However, in this case specifically, it doesn't seem to work as intended.
>  After fixing it, the Event Viewer shows the event ID is actually 18002 -
> which is 0xc0004652 with the 2 most significant bits reset to zero. Digging
> deeper, the docs at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363651%28v=vs.85%29.aspx imply
> those 2 bits are used to record the severity of the message.  It appears the
> function will mask out those bits according to the other params passed to
> ReportEvent, meaning you can't wind up with such an event ID in the event
> viewer anyway...
>
> But this consideration is specific to ReportEvent - so the next pywin32
> build will allow DWORD params in SWIG wrappers to pass such integers without
> error - but it seems that wont actually help your problem.
>
> I'm logging events to the event log on behalf of another client.  I've
tried arguing this point with them, but they insist that I must use the full
32-bit event id.  Something to do with how they generate their message
catalogs.

In any case, this snippet of python code seems to work around the problem:

if id & 0x80000000:
    id = -0x80000000 | id
ReportEvent(source, id, etc)

Best Regards,
--Chris
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