Ribbon Creator – 10: Stacked Group and PulldownButton - RevitNetAddinWizard & NavisworksNetAddinWizard

Let’s see how to create a stacked group which holds some PulldownButton items using RevitAddinWizard.

After the Ribbon Creator tool of the Revit Addin Coder is clicked, the Ribbon Creator window will appear. Then we can indicate a Stacked group is going to be created in a ribbon panel of interest through specifying Begin as the start of the group, End as the last, and some PulldownButton items in between.

As mentioned before, please choose all small images for both PulldownButton and PushButton items. Otherwise they may not look as expected.

After the OK button is pressed, the following code will be created:

        public void AddRibbonItemsToRibbonPanel(RibbonPanel panel)
        {
            string assemFullName = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
            string assemPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(assemFullName);

            PulldownButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp1Data = new PulldownButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp1", @"Pulldown 1");
            PulldownButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp2Data = new PulldownButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp2", @"Pulldown 2");
            PulldownButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp3Data = new PulldownButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp3", @"Pulldown 3");
            IList<RibbonItem> cnt1Stacked = panel.AddStackedItems(cnt1Stacked_grp1Data, cnt1Stacked_grp2Data, cnt1Stacked_grp3Data);

            PulldownButton cnt1Stacked_grp1 = cnt1Stacked[0] as PulldownButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp1.ToolTip = @"Pulldown Group 1 in Stacked";
            cnt1Stacked_grp1.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.groupsmall.bmp");

            PushButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1Data = new PushButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1", @"PushButton 11", assemFullName, "RevitAddinCSProject.ExtCmd1");
            PushButton cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1 = cnt1Stacked_grp1.AddPushButton(cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1Data) as PushButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1.ToolTip = @"PushButton 1 in Pulldown 1";
            cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1.LargeImage = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smalla.bmp");

            PulldownButton cnt1Stacked_grp2 = cnt1Stacked[1] as PulldownButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp2.ToolTip = @"Pulldown Group 2 in Stacked";
            cnt1Stacked_grp2.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.groupsmall.bmp");

            PushButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1Data = new PushButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1", @"PushButton 21", assemFullName, "RevitAddinCSProject.ExtCmd1");
            PushButton cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1 = cnt1Stacked_grp2.AddPushButton(cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1Data) as PushButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1.ToolTip = @"PushButton 1 in Pulldown 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1.LargeImage = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smalla.bmp");

            PushButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2Data = new PushButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2", @"PushButton 22", assemFullName, "RevitAddinCSProject.ExtCmd2");
            PushButton cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2 = cnt1Stacked_grp2.AddPushButton(cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2Data) as PushButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2.ToolTip = @"PushButton 2 in Pulldown 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2.LargeImage = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smallb.bmp");

            PulldownButton cnt1Stacked_grp3 = cnt1Stacked[2] as PulldownButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp3.ToolTip = @"Pulldown Group 3 in Stacked";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.groupsmall.bmp");

            PushButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1Data = new PushButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1", @"PushButton 31", assemFullName, "RevitAddinCSProject.ExtCmd1");
            PushButton cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1 = cnt1Stacked_grp3.AddPushButton(cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1Data) as PushButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1.ToolTip = @"PushButton 1 in Pulldown 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1.LargeImage = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smalla.bmp");

            PushButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2Data = new PushButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2", @"PushButton 32", assemFullName, "RevitAddinCSProject.ExtCmd2");
            PushButton cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2 = cnt1Stacked_grp3.AddPushButton(cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2Data) as PushButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2.ToolTip = @"PushButton 2 in Pulldown 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2.LargeImage = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smallb.bmp");

            PushButtonData cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3Data = new PushButtonData("cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3", @"PushButton 33", assemFullName, "RevitAddinCSProject.ExtCmd3");
            PushButton cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3 = cnt1Stacked_grp3.AddPushButton(cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3Data) as PushButton;
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3.ToolTip = @"PushButton 3 in Pulldown 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3.LargeImage = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smallc.bmp");

        }

        public static System.Windows.Media.ImageSource BmpImageSource(string embeddedPath)
        {
            Stream stream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(embeddedPath);
            var decoder = new System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BmpBitmapDecoder(stream, BitmapCreateOptions.PreservePixelFormat, BitmapCacheOption.Default);
            return decoder.Frames[0];
        }

If some extra code is added to the same External Application:

                RibbonPanel panel = _cachedUiCtrApp.CreateRibbonPanel(Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
                AddRibbonItemsToRibbonPanel(panel);
                panel.Name = "ABC_APP3_PNL2";
                panel.Title = "Buttons created by the RevitAddinWizard";

something like the following will be added to the Revit Ribbon:

All the above is supported by RevitAddinWizard.