Can Pyrevit create a drop-down list button?

Revit API
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Hello;

Can I use Pyrevit to create a drop-down list box button like the out-of-box control shown below?

Sincerely;
Michelle

Drop Down List Button

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Hi @Michelle,
Using a folder_name.pulldown folder containing your buttons (pushbutton, url, …) will do the trick

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checkout the revision pulldown in pyrevit

look at the structure of the folders that will help you

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Hello Jean-Marc;

If I understand your answer correctly, you are referring to this on the standard pyrevit toolbar:

Revision Pulldown
Revision Pulldown377×506 36.5 KB

This pulldown contains a list of buttons.

I am hoping for a list of checkboxes with info pulled from the current Revit file and/or session.

Can pyrevit “buttons” be made to look like checkboxes?

Sincerely;
Michelle

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something close would be the smartbutton folder extension and you could use a icon for the state of the icon that looks like a check box: empty and ticked. Quick and easy but not a real check box BUT the behaviour would be similar.

foldername.pulldown → button1.smartbutton, button2.smartbutton, etc.

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Hello;

Sorry to be so late to come back to this but real life (ie work) just keeps getting in the way.

I have created a pull-down as shown: (Note the print statements)
image

using smartbuttons and this script:

from pyrevit import script
from pyrevit.compat import winreg as wr
from pyrevit.coreutils.ribbon import ICON_MEDIUM


logger = script.get_logger()




# noinspection PyUnusedLocal
def __selfinit__(script_cmp, ui_button_cmp, __rvt__):
    on_icon = script_cmp.get_bundle_file('on.png')
    off_icon = script_cmp.get_bundle_file('off.png')
    print "Init"

    return True


def toggle_state():
   print "toggle state"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    toggle_state()

For this to be useful to me as a checklist, I need to have each of the button’s name and/or icon to change when the “TestList” pulldown is pushed and before the buttons are displayed.

Can PyRevit do this? Or should I look for another approach?

Sincerely;
Michelle

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quick (note so quick to make as I did not know this area of the Reit API) sample code to change the display name of a button on the fly

  • replace the ‘YourRibbonPanelName’
  • replace ‘foo’ by the name you are looking for and ‘bar’ by the expected name change
from pyrevit import HOST_APP

uiapp = HOST_APP.uiapp

rp = uiapp.GetRibbonPanels('YourRibbonPanelName')

for panel in rp:
    for item in panel.GetItems():
        if item.Text == "foo":
            item.ItemText = "bar"

you can change the icon and add pushbutton on the fly from reading this example RevitSdkSamples/Ribbon.cs at master · jeremytammik/RevitSdkSamples · GitHub