topic Re: Change tooltip for PickObject? in Revit API Forum

Change tooltip for PickObject?

adobris — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:11:49 GMT

Is it possible to change tooltip that will be displayed during PickObject method, while hovering over pick-able object?
I would like to add information like pipe size in case of pipes.

Re: Change tooltip for PickObject?

lukas.nagiller — Tue, 07 May 2019 13:36:36 GMT

push

Re: Change tooltip for PickObject?

BIM.Frankliang — Tue, 07 May 2019 15:40:17 GMT

Dear Friend

It may not have method to change tooltip when use pickobject by current API.

However, it is really a greatful idea, I like it 🙂

Best Regards,

Frank Liang

TJAD BIM Software Dev Lead

Re: Change tooltip for PickObject?

lukas.nagiller — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:46:04 GMT

Some changes in the API to do this?

Re: Change tooltip for PickObject?

jeremy_tammik — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:48:15 GMT

The Revit API does not provide direct support for this, afaik.

However, you can use the native Windows APIs to achieve some useful stuff.

Here are discussions by The Building Coder illustrating two completely different approaches; one translates the native Revit tooltips using Windows; the other creates its own custom tooltips in order to illustrate a completely different topic: