Ribbon Creator – 11: Stacked Group and ComboBox Items - RevitNetAddinWizard & NavisworksNetAddinWizard

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

As mentioned before, please choose all small images for both ComboBox and ComboBoxMember 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);

            ComboBoxData cnt1Stacked_grp1Data = new ComboBoxData("cnt1Stacked_grp1");
            ComboBoxData cnt1Stacked_grp2Data = new ComboBoxData("cnt1Stacked_grp2");
            ComboBoxData cnt1Stacked_grp3Data = new ComboBoxData("cnt1Stacked_grp3");
            IList<RibbonItem> cnt1Stacked = panel.AddStackedItems(cnt1Stacked_grp1Data, cnt1Stacked_grp2Data, cnt1Stacked_grp3Data);

            Autodesk.Revit.UI.ComboBox cnt1Stacked_grp1 = cnt1Stacked[0] as Autodesk.Revit.UI.ComboBox;
            cnt1Stacked_grp1.ItemText = @"ComboBox 1";
            cnt1Stacked_grp1.ToolTip = @"ComboBox Group 1";

            ComboBoxMemberData cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1Data = new ComboBoxMemberData("cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1", @"ComboBoxMember 11");
            ComboBoxMember cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1 = cnt1Stacked_grp1.AddItem(cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1Data);
            cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1.ToolTip = @"ComboBoxMember 1 in Stacked Group 1";
            cnt1Stacked_grp1_item1.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smalla.bmp");

            Autodesk.Revit.UI.ComboBox cnt1Stacked_grp2 = cnt1Stacked[1] as Autodesk.Revit.UI.ComboBox;
            cnt1Stacked_grp2.ItemText = @"ComboBox 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp2.ToolTip = @"ComboBox Group 2";

            ComboBoxMemberData cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1Data = new ComboBoxMemberData("cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1", @"ComboBoxMember 21");
            ComboBoxMember cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1 = cnt1Stacked_grp2.AddItem(cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1Data);
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1.ToolTip = @"ComboBoxMember 1 in Stacked Group 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item1.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smalla.bmp");

            ComboBoxMemberData cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2Data = new ComboBoxMemberData("cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2", @"ComboBoxMember 22");
            ComboBoxMember cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2 = cnt1Stacked_grp2.AddItem(cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2Data);
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2.ToolTip = @"ComboBoxMember 2 in Stacked Group 2";
            cnt1Stacked_grp2_item2.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smallb.bmp");

            Autodesk.Revit.UI.ComboBox cnt1Stacked_grp3 = cnt1Stacked[2] as Autodesk.Revit.UI.ComboBox;
            cnt1Stacked_grp3.ItemText = @"ComboBox 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3.ToolTip = @"ComboBox Group 3";

            ComboBoxMemberData cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1Data = new ComboBoxMemberData("cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1", @"ComboBoxMember 31");
            ComboBoxMember cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1 = cnt1Stacked_grp3.AddItem(cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1Data);
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1.ToolTip = @"ComboBoxMember 1 in Stacked Group 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item1.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smalla.bmp");

            ComboBoxMemberData cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2Data = new ComboBoxMemberData("cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2", @"ComboBoxMember 32");
            ComboBoxMember cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2 = cnt1Stacked_grp3.AddItem(cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2Data);
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2.ToolTip = @"ComboBoxMember 2 in Stacked Group 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item2.Image = BmpImageSource(@"RevitAddinCSProject.Resources.smallb.bmp");

            ComboBoxMemberData cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3Data = new ComboBoxMemberData("cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3", @"ComboBoxMember 33");
            ComboBoxMember cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3 = cnt1Stacked_grp3.AddItem(cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3Data);
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3.ToolTip = @"ComboBoxMember 3 in Stacked Group 3";
            cnt1Stacked_grp3_item3.Image = 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.