Keep Ribbon Tab active, untoggle Panels from Ribbon

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Hello PyRevit Cummunity :slight_smile:

I already used python to hide and unhide ribbonTabs, now i have questions for further maipulation of Tabs and Panels.

First, I would like to make a button to keep the current Tab active. Revit changes to the modify tab as soon as i select a model element, i want to prevent that behavior. Is this possible?

Second, i would like to untoggle all panels of a ribbon at once. Doable with the API or not?

After using the dynamo player for 2 years i am searching for a good method to use my new pyRevit tabs and keep them in foreground.

Happy about any advice!
Kind regards :slight_smile:

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As far as I’m aware there is no built-in way to prevent Revit from switching to the modify tab. However, it may be possible to create a workaround. But, it would be difficult to implement what I have in mind and I would not recommend it either.

As for toggling panels of a ribbon. It should possible to disable the tabs/panels/buttons of anything in the ribbon through the AdWindows.dll. However, I’m not sure if such a use case is officially supported. I’ve done something similar that will hide and disable one of my tabs when I’m not in a FamilyDocument.

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In the latest Revit lookup from yesterday there is an access to the dll that managed the UI if u read it properly. You could dig into that

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I’ve done something similar via the AdWindows.dll as Nicholas mentioned, in combination with some event listeners to trigger the tab activation.

from pyrevit import clr
clr.AddReference('AdWindows')
import Autodesk.Windows as adWin
ribbon =  adWin.ComponentManager.Ribbon
ribbon.FindTab('Collaborate').IsActive = True
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@BlakeN
If you going to import AdWindows why bother importing clr from pyrevit and adding the reference? Just import it straight from pyrevit.

from pyrevit.api import AdWindows as adWin
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Because that would be too easy! Haha yeah my knowledge when it comes to imports and references is a little cobbled together if I’m being honest. That is a much better way, thanks for sharing.

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I installed Revit Lookup today for the first time and was excited to test it. Lost 2 hours of work because revit lookup gives me only one thing, a fatal error :confused:

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you are unlucky, I uninstalled the previous version and installed the latest from 2 days ago and it worked like a charm with so many improvements.
You may want to file an issue report on their github accompanied with your revit journal file that will show the devs a bit more what is happening that makes it crashing

regarding your first question, isn’t it what you are trying to achieve?

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Oh, yes! Thank you @Jean-Marc i didn´t know that. Would be great if we could controle that with the API but I´m afraid it´s not possible. So maybe working with an untoggled panel will be the better solution…

I opened an issue on Github for Lookup.