What for the Icon size Pyrevit

Revit API
1

Hi PyRevit users,

This topic is not related to any code. I would just like to ask about the effect of icon sizes in PyRevit. I have noticed that we cannot use icons larger than 96x96, but it seems that all icons are smaller than that size, and I don’t see any difference between them.

By the way, could you please let me know what the best icon size to use is?

Thanks!

2

Never wondered about the why, I use 96px icons only

but looking at the code, it is specced in more than one place pyRevit/pyrevitlib/pyrevit/coreutils/ribbon.py at a00956d740aa04cf08aa3bbad5e25280d2bc3b62 · pyrevitlabs/pyRevit · GitHub

1 Like
3

Hi @Jean-Marc

My senior told me that I should use 24x24 but I don’t found any difference when I use the larger ones or smaller. Anyway, thanks for your information

4

We sometime get errors with 96x96 size on some machines in our org.
We use 48x48 by default for thst reason.

I think the standard sizes native for Revit is 16x16 for small icons and 32x32 for large.

Resolution is 96dpi
https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/09/ribbon-icon-resolution.html

2 Likes
5

Hi John, thanks for your answer I think that’s what I need

1 Like
6

To add to this if it’s anything like C# then I can confirm 96dpi, 32px for LargeImage and 16px for Image property of buttons is definitely the one that works best in my experience.

In pyRevit I have also noticed errors for using 96 and 48dpi, I believe it relates to something at a system/computer level as we haven’t been able to underpin the cause. Could be memory/buffer related potentially when the image is being read/converted to ImageSource for RevitAPI. Haven’t seen it in C#, so I’d guess it relates to the Python approach to converting the images.

2 Likes