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Open a cutsom chm file ribbon button

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:25:43 GMT

I am new to the Revit API. I have gone through the first tutorials and created a button in the revit ribbon that opens the "helloworld" task dialogue. I have created a custom chm help file and would like the button to open this file instead but cannot find the code. Can anyone help?

Thanks. Warren

Re: Open a cutsom chm file ribbon button

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 03:53:25 GMT

Try System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(filename)

Re: Open a cutsom chm file ribbon button

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 06:04:47 GMT

Hi Warren,

You need to use ContextualHelp class to associate custom help.

ContextualHelp

contextHelp = newContextualHelp(ContextualHelpType.ChmFile, @"C:\Demo.chm");

pushButtonHello.SetContextualHelp(contextHelp);

I have posted the relevant code snippet in our AEC DevBlog -

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2014/03/opening-a-custom-chm-file-from-ribbon-button-in-revit.html

Thanks,

Re: Open a cutsom chm file ribbon button

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:58:17 GMT

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for

Re: Open a cutsom chm file ribbon button

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:59:52 GMT

Not exactly what I was after as far as I can see. I just wanted to open the chm file by pressing the button. Thanks anyway

Re: Open a cutsom chm file ribbon button

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:47:13 GMT

yes i also looking that