Balloon tip instead of save reminder

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Hi guys!

I’d like to share my way of making a balloon tip using pyRevit.

Specifically my smartbutton replaces standard modal Saving and Synchronization reminder dialog by nice balloon tip:

balloon_reminder_pic_1

link to the source code:

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This is badass! @Konstantin
Why not adding it to pyRevit itself?

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Very cool! I had no idea InfoCenter has a baloon tip API. Very nice!

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We do have notification APIs in pyRevit e.g. forms.toast()

Maybe we can at lease wrap this ballooning functionality in the forms module for easy access

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Sure! If you think it worth it :grinning:

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That would be great! Maybe you can find a better way than what i currently have.

Article for the reference:
https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/03/using-balloon-tips-in-revit.html

And looks like it can have more advanced UI, i just could not figure out how to make it.

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First implementation Show balloon first prototype to forms module by jmcouffin · Pull Request #1801 · eirannejad/pyRevit · GitHub
Did the time to test extensively.

  • Cannot make the Uri to work properly
  • The click event crashes when using print_md
  • Cannot figure out what the tooltip nor the group or the timestamp are exactly

@Konstantin great stuff, thanks for the pointer
@thumDer @eirannejad

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This is great!

I’m so glad you came back to this topic :blush:

Unfortunately I’m currently overloaded with other work, so can’t participate the testing. But I can share one more button that I did when I played with it. As I remember some methods have to import inside the event to work properly. I could not figure out which are needed and why.

This script is a toggle button showing view name balloon on view change event with forms.alert on click:

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