Event Logging other than event id 1000 about node-windows HOT 7 CLOSED

@miquelfire: so the id can be negative also?
according to the first post by [coreybutler] the expected data type is Uint32. So this shouldn't really work.
As the default is 1000, a custom value would be something other than 100, wouldn't it?

@coreybutler: future users will thank you for that :-)

from node-windows.

Truthfully, I'm not sure why this would be failing. The event logging code was written a very long time ago, and it worked with custom IDs... but I haven't tested it in a very long time.

The only thing I can think of is the encoding. The event ID may need to be a Uint32, which JS won't handle by default. That's just a guess though. Unfortunately, I do not have time to look into this, so I'll mark it as "help wanted".

from node-windows.

Looking at how events are created in the code, I saw it used eventcreate. Looking at the docs, I noticed something that might be key: It seems the ID can only be between 1 and 1000.

From here

/id <eventID> Specifies the event ID for the event. A valid ID is any number from 1 to 1000.

from node-windows.

Interesting, but very strange. In my event log, I see tons of event ids higher than 1000.
Maybe a limitation of eventcreate.
But for differentiaton purposes, the absolute value does not really matter, I guess, as the id is to be interpreted in relation to the event source, right?
I checked with 700, which worked fine.
You might consider adding to the documentation:

a) eventcreate is used under the hood
b) this limits a custom event id to an unsigned int < 1000

Thank you very much for your input!

from node-windows.

It would be int <= 1000

from node-windows.

I just added notes about this to the README.

from node-windows.

The valid values are 1 to 1000. I assume if there was direct access to the event log API instead of using eventcreate, we could use higher values.

from node-windows.