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Thanks for this this extra information.  Much appreciated.

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Malcolm Smith
MJ Freelancing
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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Malcolm Smith" <m.smith@comvision.net.au> wrote in message
> news:4084732e@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> > how do I tell it which entry from the registry I want logged
> > in the event viewer.
>
> By passing the actual custom codes as the reason when calling
> ExitWindowsEx(), ie:
>
>     // reason codes are laid out as follows:
>     // 0xAABBCCCC
>     // AA = 8-bit flags
>     // BB = 8-bit major code
>     // CCCC = 16-bit minor code
>
>     // name these whatever you want...
>     #define MY_MAJOR_REASON_CODE        0x00400000 // 64 left-shifted 16
> bits
>     #define MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_0    0x00000000
>     #define MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_1    0x00000001
>     #define MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_2    0x00000002
>
>     ExitWindowsEx(
>         EWX_REBOOT,
>         SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_USER_DEFINED |
>             SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_PLANNED |
>             MY_MAJOR_REASON_CODE |
>             MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_0);
>
> To help make the code a little more readable, you can define some helper
> macros that will generate a reason code from values you provide it:
>
>     #define MAKE_REASON_FLAGS(flags) \
>         (((DWORD)((BYTE)(flags))) << 24)
>
>     #define MAKE_REASON_MAJOR(major) \
>         (((DWORD)((BYTE)(major))) << 16)
>
>     #define MAKE_REASON_MINOR(minor) \
>         ((DWORD)((WORD)(minor)))
>
>     #define MAKE_REASON_CODE(flags, major, minor)    \
>         (MAKE_REASON_FLAGS(flags) | \
>         MAKE_REASON_MAJOR(major) | \
>         MAKE_REASON_MINOR(minor))
>
> Then you can call it with hard-coded values:
>
>     ExitWindowsEx(
>         EWX_REBOOT,
>         MAKE_REASON_CODE(
>             SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_USER_DEFINED |
>                 SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_PLANNED,
>             64,
>             0)
>     );
>
> or use defines for the custom codes:
>
>     #define MY_MAJOR_REASON_CODE        64 // <-- not hex like above
>     #define MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_0    0
>     #define MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_1    1
>     #define MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_2    2
>
>     ExitWindowsEx(
>         EWX_REBOOT,
>         MAKE_REASON_CODE(
>             SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_USER_DEFINED |
>                 SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_PLANNED,
>             MY_MAJOR_REASON_CODE,
>             MY_MINOR_REASON_CODE_0)
>     );
>
> As for the Registry, the only purpose of the Registry values is to set up
> dialog flags and title/description information for the event loggers.
When
> you specify a reason code, ExitWindowsEx() decyphers what the specified
> major and minor codes are and then looks up their cooresponding values in
> the Registry for display/logging.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>