InstallAware

I referred to 'Logged execution' in documentation and also a few posts on this forum regarding logging information. I am still not sure if I am doing it correctly and just need someone to verify my approach.
I declared a variable LOGFILE with the location of log file, then after each important step such as checking pre-requisites, updating config etc I added a statement setting LOGGED variable, and then wrote that to LOGFILE as shown in the code below. Is this approach correct to log information as your installer runs or is there a better way? I read that we need to use <setup.exe> /l= path to log file. Where exactly do we provide these arguments? On command line?

When I do try something like the code below, it does create a file but when it hits 'Apply Install', it hangs. If I simply write the content of '$LOGGED$' to log.txt after 'Apply Install', log.txt gets created but remains empty. Any ideas?

That's definitely a way to do it.

Also, you can use the LOGGED pre-defined variable:

Ok, thanks.

In your documentation in 'Logged Execution' chapter, it would have been really helpful if you would have simply given an example.
In that chapter, just below the text where it says

<setup.exe> /l=<path to logFile>

you might want to add

To enable logging programmatically, after you have called 'Apply Install' command, use the following command:

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Set Variable LOGGED to $TARGETDIR$\log.txt

This is just in case someone else is trying to figure out how to enable logging programmatically.

Thanks