Gopinath thanks for your reply.
Is your dialog modeless?
No. Once a a key is pressed, close the dialog box Dialog Result OK.
When you hit the space bar, is your dialog still open and listening to events?
No.
What kind of family instance are you facing?
Its a level based family, Electrical fixture category.
Are you trying to replicate the native Revit command for placing the family instance?
Not really. The point of the addin is to place an instance of a particular family and avoid having to scroll through the types in the properties palette. The dialog displays a list of family types that could be placed, each one has a letter associated with it. That letter passes the family type (FamilySymbol) to promptforfamilyinstanceplacement.
Here is an example workflow (Key strokes in Bold😞
Revit keyboard shortcut: BS, Command is launched & dialog is shown.
X Key pressed to select a predefined family & type from my dialog box. My dialog is closed by the key press event & promptforfamily instance placement is called.
Spacebar pressed to rotate the family for placement. This is where the problem occurs. The spacebar starts the command over, the status bar is still displaying keyboard shortcut info even though the command is already running.
If i wait a couple seconds before hitting the spacebar to rotate the family without issue. After that couple seconds the status bar stops showing the keyboard shortcut info & displays info about placing a family.
I guess the question is, why is revit still "listening" for a shortcut or shortcut cycling when a command is active?
I tried creating a transaction before the dialog was launched & closing the transaction before calling promptforfamilyinstanceplacement, since it can't be called from within a transaction. But no luck.
Thanks,
Ben
