Ribbon Creator – 9: Stacked Group and TextBox - RevitNetAddinWizard & NavisworksNetAddinWizard

Let’s see how to create a stacked group which holds some TextBox 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 TextBox members in between.

The Text column is to specify the default Value for TextBox members. If they are not supposed to have any default values, please just leave the cells blank. The Tooltip column is obvious as usual, to provide tooltips for TextBox.

The Image column provides some default bitmap images to be used by TextBox creation. Of course, the default images can be overridden by any other bitmaps we like through clicking the icons. In the real TextBox items on the ribbon panel, when the associated icons (images) are clicked the TextBox fields will be updated automatically, and that explains why the images look like check marks. This is realized through setting the property ShowImageAsButton as true and implementing a call back for the event EnterPressed of each TextBox. The event handler does not really do anything and leaving it empty is enough to do the trick.

As TextBox will not trigger any commands the Command column is not selectable.
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);

            TextBoxData cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1Data = new TextBoxData("cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1");
            TextBoxData cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2Data = new TextBoxData("cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2");
            TextBoxData cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3Data = new TextBoxData("cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3");
            IList<RibbonItem> cnt1Stacked = panel.AddStackedItems(cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1Data, cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2Data, cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3Data);


            Autodesk.Revit.UI.TextBox cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1 = cnt1Stacked[0] as Autodesk.Revit.UI.TextBox;
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1.ToolTip = @"The Name of Person 1 ";
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1.Value = @"Person 1";
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.CheckAndUpdate.bmp");
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1.ShowImageAsButton = true;
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item1.EnterPressed += CallbackOfTextBoxEnterPressed;


            Autodesk.Revit.UI.TextBox cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2 = cnt1Stacked[1] as Autodesk.Revit.UI.TextBox;
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2.ToolTip = @"The Name of Person 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2.Value = @"Person 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.CheckAndUpdate.bmp");
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2.ShowImageAsButton = true;
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item2.EnterPressed += CallbackOfTextBoxEnterPressed;


            Autodesk.Revit.UI.TextBox cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3 = cnt1Stacked[2] as Autodesk.Revit.UI.TextBox;
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3.ToolTip = @"The Name of Person 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3.Value = @"Person 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.CheckAndUpdate.bmp");
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3.ShowImageAsButton = true;
            cnt1Stacked_grp0_item3.EnterPressed += CallbackOfTextBoxEnterPressed;

        }

public static void CallbackOfTextBoxEnterPressed(object sender, TextBoxEnterPressedEventArgs args)
{

}

        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.