accessing Pushbutton of a command from inside the command

[tephraimCHQM3]

Hello everyone, 

I want to disable the button of an external command when the user clicks it.

After the command finished running, I want to enable back the push button.

The reason behind this is that I don't want to have several instances of the command running, only one at a time. 

One way I though to to make this happen is by changing the PushButton.Enabled property of the relevant push button. To do that I need access to the commands corresponding push button.

Any Idea of how can I do that?

I will note that my externalApplication and externalCommand  reside in 2 different projects, so they can't easily access each other.

[tephraimCHQM3]

Hello everyone, 

I want to disable the button of an external command when the user clicks it.

After the command finished running, I want to enable back the push button.

The reason behind this is that I don't want to have several instances of the command running, only one at a time. 

One way I though to to make this happen is by changing the PushButton.Enabled property of the relevant push button. To do that I need access to the commands corresponding push button.

Any Idea of how can I do that?

I will note that my externalApplication and externalCommand  reside in 2 different projects, so they can't easily access each other.

[naveen.kumar.t · Accepted solution]

Hi @tephraimCHQM3 ,

Are you looking for this one?

Autodesk.Windows.RibbonControl ribbon = Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager.Ribbon;
                foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonTab tab in ribbon.Tabs)
                {
                    if (tab.Title.Contains("Add-Ins"))
                    {
                        foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonPanel panel in tab.Panels)
                        {
                            
                            if (panel.Source.Id == "EXTERNAL_TOOLS_PANEL")
                            {
                                panel.IsEnabled = false;
                                //Do your Work Here
                                //After completing your work                                
                                panel.IsEnabled = true;

                            } 
                        }
                    }
                }

[naveen.kumar.t · Accepted solution]

Hi @tephraimCHQM3 ,

Are you looking for this one?

Autodesk.Windows.RibbonControl ribbon = Autodesk.Windows.ComponentManager.Ribbon;
                foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonTab tab in ribbon.Tabs)
                {
                    if (tab.Title.Contains("Add-Ins"))
                    {
                        foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonPanel panel in tab.Panels)
                        {
                            
                            if (panel.Source.Id == "EXTERNAL_TOOLS_PANEL")
                            {
                                panel.IsEnabled = false;
                                //Do your Work Here
                                //After completing your work                                
                                panel.IsEnabled = true;

                            } 
                        }
                    }
                }

[ricaun]

Hello!

Probably the easiest way is using the IExternalCommandAvailability with a static variable to enable/disable your button.

The Availability of the button could be applied when um create the PushButtonData on the AvailabilityClassName property, like the ClassName property.

Here is a simple implementation of the IExternalCommandAvailability with the static Enabled

using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI;

namespace RevitAddin
{
    public class AvailableOnProjectButtonEnabled : IExternalCommandAvailability
    {
        public static bool Enabled { get; set; } = true;
        public bool IsCommandAvailable(UIApplication uiapp, CategorySet categorySet)
        {
            if (uiapp.ActiveUIDocument == null) return false;
            if (uiapp.ActiveUIDocument.Document == null) return false;
            if (uiapp.ActiveUIDocument.Document.IsFamilyDocument) return false;

            return Enabled;
        }
    }
}

See yaa!

[ricaun]

Hello!

Probably the easiest way is using the IExternalCommandAvailability with a static variable to enable/disable your button.

The Availability of the button could be applied when um create the PushButtonData on the AvailabilityClassName property, like the ClassName property.

Here is a simple implementation of the IExternalCommandAvailability with the static Enabled

using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI;

namespace RevitAddin
{
    public class AvailableOnProjectButtonEnabled : IExternalCommandAvailability
    {
        public static bool Enabled { get; set; } = true;
        public bool IsCommandAvailable(UIApplication uiapp, CategorySet categorySet)
        {
            if (uiapp.ActiveUIDocument == null) return false;
            if (uiapp.ActiveUIDocument.Document == null) return false;
            if (uiapp.ActiveUIDocument.Document.IsFamilyDocument) return false;

            return Enabled;
        }
    }
}

See yaa!

[tephraimCHQM3]

Thanks @ricaun and @naveen.kumar.t  for the answers.

Even though @ricaun answer is indeed a possible solution, the one provided by @naveen.kumar.t is more fitted to my needs.

Here is my final implementation:

        public static void SetToolEnabledValue(string ribbonItemText, bool value)
        {
            RibbonTab ribbonTab = ComponentManager.Ribbon.Tabs
                .FirstOrDefault(tab => tab.AutomationName == "TAB_NAME");
            if (ribbonTab != default(RibbonTab))
            {
                foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonPanel panel in ribbonTab.Panels)
                {
                    foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonItem ribbonItem in panel.Source.Items)
                    {
                        if (ribbonItem.AutomationName == ribbonItemText)
                        {
                            ribbonItem.IsEnabled = value;
                            return;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

[tephraimCHQM3]

Thanks @ricaun and @naveen.kumar.t  for the answers.

Even though @ricaun answer is indeed a possible solution, the one provided by @naveen.kumar.t is more fitted to my needs.

Here is my final implementation:

        public static void SetToolEnabledValue(string ribbonItemText, bool value)
        {
            RibbonTab ribbonTab = ComponentManager.Ribbon.Tabs
                .FirstOrDefault(tab => tab.AutomationName == "TAB_NAME");
            if (ribbonTab != default(RibbonTab))
            {
                foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonPanel panel in ribbonTab.Panels)
                {
                    foreach (Autodesk.Windows.RibbonItem ribbonItem in panel.Source.Items)
                    {
                        if (ribbonItem.AutomationName == ribbonItemText)
                        {
                            ribbonItem.IsEnabled = value;
                            return;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }